[HN Gopher] Technical milestone reached: global earth system sim... ___________________________________________________________________ Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln Author : jokabrink Score : 26 points Date : 2022-10-08 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (mpimet.mpg.de) (TXT) w3m dump (mpimet.mpg.de) | Victerius wrote: | I have only one question. Does this mean that we are getting | closer to a cloud-hosted ultimate map for games like Call of Duty | and Ace Combat? | | I want to dogfight over Ohio, land at Offutt to play Warzone in | Omaha, then take a MRAP and drive to NY. | teraflop wrote: | 1:1 scale multiplayer world maps have existed for decades, e.g. | in Microsoft Flight Simulator. | | The difficulty of making a "large" map comes from what you want | to simulate and in how much detail, not from how big it is per | se. | superkuh wrote: | "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" | https://qntm.org/responsibility , Topic relevant short scifi on | Earth simulation. | teddyh wrote: | Previously here on HN: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7267811 | [deleted] | a_square_peg wrote: | This is fantastic - would be really exciting to see this level of | resolution making its way to global operational weather forecasts | (currently at ~10km). | counters wrote: | It's far too expensive with dubious impacts on forecast | quality. Adaptive mesh approaches are far more suitable for | high res global weather modeling... Why simulate the area under | boring, dynamically unimportant areas? | plantain wrote: | >throughput of 2.5 simulated days per day Will need to be at | least 10x faster to be operationally useful. | downvotetruth wrote: | 1.25 ~ 1.3: Round half to odd prefers preserving the existing | scale of tie numbers avoiding out-of-range results when possible | for numeral systems of even radix. | gmuslera wrote: | This is for short term weather prediction or long term climate | modelling? The 2.5 simulated days per day points into the short | term direction. | guenthert wrote: | I wouldn't think that a temporal resolution measured in days is | needed or all that helpful for climate modeling. | OrvalWintermute wrote: | This sounds alot less than Nvidia's FourCastNet? | | https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-fleet-command/watch-27?xs... | | How do these two compare? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-08 23:00 UTC)