The UK Met office and the BBC are looking for home PC users to share processing of climate data (like SETI at home and other projects), details here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/
Good example of Heisenberg maybe. Could increasing the utilization of millions of gently used CPU’s to 100% make global warming come true?
If you’re joining in, why not just the Weather-Watch team. I’m told that if you follow this link http://bbc.cpdn.org/create_account_form.php?teamid=38 you’ll be able to join the team. I’m member #1 
I signed up, so I think I’m #2. Now to find a box to put it on…
I’m running the boinc version for some time now and did try to join your team, but it seems to be impossible 
I have now 7192,78 credits, so that should be a good start for the team
Joske
If you need a sig just go to http://www.joske-online.be/boincwapstats
sorry, could not join with my existing accound, so i created a new one
Nice article about this in the headlines:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060214/sc_nm/environment_climate_dc
-Bob
Only through perseverance was I able to join…very lousy connection between me and the server. Everything took two tries to get anywhere…not a good sign…
Can’t seem to figure out how to get it running on both HT processors…
I suspect the servers are overloaded…probably due to the Yahoo article. When I joned about 3.5 hours ago there were just short of 5000 users. There are nearly 11,000 now!
I can get to the team page, but it’s a bit slow at the moment.
Anybody have suggestions for setting processor affinity? This computer is not doing anything, just sits there and idles until I need to do some pictures or manage my checkbook, but it’s a HT 3.4Ghz P4 and I am only able to use 50% of the horsepower for the project…
I signed up eventually, but I kept getting timeouts. I have uninstalled it tonight, but will try to get it up and running again tomorrow.
There is a link under “Other Top Stories” on the BBC News Home page - that may be contributing to system slowdown as even more people join.
Chris
It looks like you can only process one model per CPU. So to get your other CPU to do some work you’ll have to load another model and solve two at the same time.
Ok, I thought maybe I was having a senior moment #-o
Not a big deal, s@h wouldn’t thread correctly either…but this makes a nice replacement for the seti project as my computers have been looking for something to do with all those spare cycles since I quit the seti project…
Just to clarify things a little.
If you’d like to create a new climateprediction account in the Weather-Watch team, use the URL http://bbc.cpdn.org/create_account_form.php?teamid=38
If you’ve already got a climateprediction account and would like to join the Weather-Watch team, use the URL http://bbc.cpdn.org/team_display.php?teamid=38 and click the Join link.
So far, I’ve been part of:
Seti - OK when it started out, but as it’s possible that nothing will ever be found I gave it up as too boring!
RC5-64 cracking - OK whilst it lasted, but it’s cracked now.
Protein folding - A good cause, but I never seemed to be able to find that I’d actually achieved anything…other than seeing my CPU at 100% all of the time!
ClimatePrediction - Looks good so far. It’s weather related and you appear to be able to process a complete model in a reasonable amount of time.
The climate project is interesting but seems short lived…once they have the answers I guess it’s over and we will be looking for some other project.
I’m not sure how short lived it is. They want some results for the BBC program in May, but there was also a reference to the ClimatePrediction project still wanting models solved even if they finished after May.
I realy did try, but that does not seem to work 
There are 8 people joined to the team now including someone called pinto, so it does work. The team stats don’t seem to update in real time. Perhaps it’s a once a day thing? I’m 0.32% through my model on the task page of the BOINC Manager, but the project page show work done/average work done as zero. Maybe that only updates once a day as well?
I did not explain myself well.
I have an accound at cpdn.net,nickname mercurius, so I would join WW-team, but coud not
I had to create an accound at bbc.cpdn.org ,nickname pinto and then I could join with that accound.
The reason why? Well it is a different project, so I had 7192,78 credits that I can not use for the WW-team
Ahhh…I see. I’d only considered the Weather-Watch team as being for the Climate Prediction project.