Scientists develop a more efficient way to crunch climate numbers

Mirroring the climate using ones and zeros takes a lot of computing power. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found a way to reduce that power hungry need dramatically with a novel computational approach. Replacing a single long computer drive with multiple short runs, they found a way to get more mileage out of the largest and fastest supercomputer systems and get the climate answers hundreds of times faster. The new strategy provides equally reliable results but at a fraction of the computational cost.