Re: Help out science by lending unused computer resources
basically Brad, the program downloads A small section of the data that has been collected, for A project, for example historic temperature, Wind speed, and pressure changes measured four times a day over the period of 3 months in A 100 mi.² region of the Mojave desert collected by a weather satellite two years ago for climate research purposes.
You can't see the data, because it is encrypted to insure it cannot be changed Buy a user, but imagine it as a table of values. you will not know exactly what they are trying to understand about this piece of data, but it could be for instance (calculating the average between all the data points) or maybe comparing them to another table of data to look for a pattern over time.
at the same time as your computer is doing this, a few other people across the globe have the same data as you, and once you are all done calculating the result, your answers are compared to make sure they match and that no data tampering or errors occurred.
Normally this is the kind of thing that a super computer could do, but since those are expensive and time with them is limited, this is a good way to simulate one. and maybe a year down the road where the data is all calculated, it can a scientists in writing a paper that proposes what we can do to reduce the impact on The unique ecosystem of the Mojave from the effects of global warming in the areas it is most damaging.
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