CPDN

March 15, 2005

Hi all,

My name is Chris and I was born in Kerala in 1951. I have been

vegetarian since 1983. I am writing to invite all who are interested

to participate in a very worthwhile science project called

climateprediction.net. This is a distributed computing project similar

to seti@home, but with an arguably more urgent objective. Here is a

brief synopsis of what the project hopes to achieve, taken from the

climateprediction website.

" The aim of climateprediction.net is to allow us to explore how

climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different

scenarios. In the past estimates of climate change have had to be made

using one or, at best, a very small ensemble (tens rather than

thousands!) of model runs. By using your computers, we will be able to

improve our understanding of, and confidence in, climate change

predictions more than would ever be possible using the supercomputers

currently available to scientists. "

If you think you might develop some enthusiasm for this project you

can find out more and sign up at

Please read the technical requirements before signing up and

downloading the software as the program is quite muscular and will not

work on some machines.

If you do decide you want to be involved, I have also started an

international team for vegetarians and vegans amongst the CPDN

community. The name of the team is V, and anyone is free to sign up or

leave at any time. Any CPDN participant is also free to start their

own team as they wish. If you are already sure you want to join V, you

can join the project directly from the team URL:

_account_form.php?teamid=1825

I would be happy to answer any questions (to the best of my ability)

so please feel free to write me at c_mackrell

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this post, and I hope

I see you in the climateprediction community.

Sincerely

Chris MacKrell

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