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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21516 Gender:	Re: Supercomputer for climate research Reply #15 - Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:01pm The results will only be that with the same input they make the same errors faster.
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 121996 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Supercomputer for climate research Reply #16 - Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:07pm lee wrote on Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:01pm: The results will only be that with the same input they make the same errors faster. More processing power means that more variables can be introduced into the equations.
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21516 Gender:	Re: Supercomputer for climate research Reply #17 - Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:40pm Bobby. wrote on Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:07pm: More processing power means that more variables can be introduced into the equations. And more variables means more options of choosing the output you want.
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 121996 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Supercomputer for climate research Reply #18 - Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:53pm lee wrote on Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:40pm: Bobby. wrote on Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:07pm: More processing power means that more variables can be introduced into the equations. And more variables means more options of choosing the output you want. Let's see if they come up with anything interesting?
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Reply #19 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 8:55pm

NASA has supercomputers that can predict earthquakes up to 5 years into the future through the modeling of tectonic movement. The NASA team predicted the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 down to the two week period of December. They were roughly right. Australian seismologists were on an elevated alert for that period in our region. When the earthquake took place, our team of 'experts' let the Indonesians know about the likelihood of a considerable tsunami impact for the region. The Indonesians were like (*Scottish accent*) "Nah, it'll be fine". And then they lost tens of thousands of Indonesians in that region.

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Reply #20 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 9:16pm

lee wrote on Jul 18^th, 2020 at 4:01pm:

The results will only be that with the same input they make the same errors faster.

Yeah. But if you put in the right inputs, you will come up with the right answers faster. Satellites can count how many people are walking around outside and give a rough estimation about how many people are in a region or where they are congregating. Satellites can pick up the atmospheric weather conditions of the day and be able to make rough predictions of what a week's weather forecast could be.

But, if you think a satellite can send its information to a Pentium II computer and allow the computer to run its calculations without crashing, you are sadly mistaken. Even the Spierig brothers could not make a B-grade horror movie about zombies without having their Pentium computers crash trying to make the special effects scenes.

I figure we can have the computer technicians put together a good supercomputer and let the climate researchers put together a good set of data for them to extrapolate future variable weather forecasts.

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Reply #21 - Jul 25^th, 2020 at 10:12am

Then there are quantum computers:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928294/google-quantum-supremacy-sycamore-c...

Google confirms ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough

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Its research paper is now available to read in its entirety
By Jon Porter@JonPorty Oct 23, 2019, 6:31am EDT

Google says that its 54-qubit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. That would mean the calculation, which involved generated random numbers, is essentially impossible on a traditional, non-quantum computer.

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