IT struggles with climate change

06.02.2006

Big iron, big pipes, big problems

Here are just a few of the systems that climate scientists are using today to research global warming trends. MIT's Patrick Heimbach says his goal is to have access to 20,000 processors that are each 100 times faster than what he's using today.

MIT

Alliance for Computational Earth Science (ACES) PC Grid

-- 500 Pentium 4 CPUs