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Computing Global Change

MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change uses MGHPCC computing resources to make projections of future risks to the sustainability of Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems under different policy scenarios.

Geared towards enabling decision-makers in the public and private sectors to better assess environmental and economic risks, and the associated costs and benefits of potential courses of action, the program’s 2021 Global Change Outlook report, prepared ahead of COP26, provides its latest periodic update on the direction our planet is heading in terms of economic development and its implications for sustainable resource use and the environment under different policy scenarios.

To obtain this integrated look at food, water, energy, and climate, as well as the oceans, atmosphere and land that comprise the Earth system, program researchers use the MIT Integrated Global System Modeling (IGSM) framework, a linked set of computer models developed by the MIT Joint Program to analyze interactions among human and Earth systems. The models, and the expansive data sets they use and generate, are run and housed on MIT computers located at the MGHPCC.

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Research projects

Foldit
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
Engineering the Human Microbiome
Computing Social Capital
Computers Diagnosing Disease
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