Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.

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On November 28th, in Durban, South Africa, a two-week conference about global climate change begins.

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Buiter stopped by Bloomberg Radio last week to talk, ostensibly, about the current global economic climate (downloads as an mp3).

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