Millennium Run, Simulating the Universe - The Earth Simulator

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Plenty of other supercomputers are designed for use in research simulations. While the Milenium Run tries to track the evolution of the universe, Japan’s Earth Simulator is designed to simulate the Earth’s climate. The Earth Simulator supercomputer is no lightweight either, with 5120 processors reaching 35.86 TFLOPS. It was the fastest supercomputer in the world (from 2002-2004), and has since only fallen to #3.

The computer has run simulations of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. It has done holistic studies with a precision of 10 km. The supercomputer is also being used by Solid Earth Simulation Group to follow the reactions happening inside the Earth, designing algorithms to copy geophysical processes. The data from the Earth Simulator is used by NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan), JAERI (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), and JAMSTEC (Japan Marine Science and Technology Center).

New geophysical simulations and grid systems in sperical geometry using virtual reality technology.

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