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Since your interview with an NCAR applied mathematician 13 years
ago, Lisa, our global coupled climate models have improved greatly and
confidence in their
reliability as a prediction tool is extremely strong within the scientific
community. (Just think
of the advancements in computing power and resolution capabilities over the
past 13 years.
Can you remember your computer or the internet from 1992? Today's fastest
super
computers can do approximately 80 trillion calculations per second at peak
speed.)
I should mention that at the same time that I did that article about climate
modeling/NCAR I was researching a project that involved a high-end
superconductor testbed project which would involve 8 GIGABITS of computing memory. At
the time, I was blown away by the vastness of such an enterprise. Nuff said.
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