The attached Nature comment from UK's Tim Palmer calls for LHC-sized
institutes to build an exascale climate model (1km global resolution).
Roughly one per continent. I think he also wants an exascale machine
dedicated to climate at each of these super centers but he doesn't say that.
Prof. Palmer sent it and the email below to the ACME program managers
and other US agency climate modeling program managers.
I haven't seen any other discussion of this within ACME and I don't
think its going to start a course change in the US modeling groups.
Rob
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Subject: [acme-all] Tim Palmer Nature Comment
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:11:14 +0000
From: Bader, David C. <bader2(a)llnl.gov>
Reply-To: Bader, David C. <bader2(a)llnl.gov>
To: acme-all(a)lists.llnl.gov <acme-all(a)lists.llnl.gov>
FYI - I received this today. It was also sent to Dorothy and Gary at DOE,
as well as most other US agency modeling program managers.
David C. Bader (bader2(a)llnl.gov)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
+1-925-422-4843(w)
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On 11/21/14 12:47 AM, "Tim Palmer" <t.n.palmer(a)atm.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>Dear US Colleagues
>
>Please see attached a Comment which appeared in Nature yesterday.
>
>I write this email with some sense of trepidation. Of course as an
>outsider it is not for me to tell you guys how to organise yourselves. I
>also realise that what I am proposing is much easier said than done.
>However, as most of you know I think, I have spent many years at ECMWF,
>seeing first hand the advantages and benefits of pooling human and
>computational resources by countries and (hence funding agencies) around
>Europe. I have also worked with many weather/climate scientists in the US
>over the years. In a world with infinite resources, who could complain
>about funding a wide range of cutting-edge comprehensive climate models?
>Alas, we do not live in a world of infinite resources - rather resources
>are becoming increasingly stretched as we realise how challenging a
>problem climate prediction really is. As such, I do wonder what could be
>achieved if there was more integration of the major weather/climate
>modelling initiatives funded by the various agencies in the US. (I am
>not proposing that we put all our modelling eggs into one basket. There
>is enough diversity worldwide to prevent this happening. Neither, of
>course, am I proposing that we stop funding innovative ideas by
>individual institutes, to improve our models.)
>
>Please take these remarks in the sense they are intended: not to
>critique, but to continue a discussion on how to move our science forward
>as rapidly as possible. There is an extremely urgent need for more
>reliable climate information by society worldwide. This is a global
>problem. However, as a global science community, I personally feel we are
>not doing all we can to meet this need.
>
>I would be interested in any feedback you may have on this Commentary.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Tim Palmer
>
>University of Oxford
>
