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About 250,000 people downloaded software from climateprediction.net onto their home computers, each running a single simulation of the future.
The results suggest the UK could be about 3C warmer than now in 75 years' time, agreeing with other models.
Full details will be revealed at the weekend in a BBC TV programme presented by Sir David Attenborough.
BBC.co.uk wrote:
Each downloaded a software pack from climateprediction.net which ran when their computer was otherwise idle, with results being fed back to the central server. Each simulation required about three months of computing time on an average PC.
The model itself was developed by the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Meteorological Office, and usually runs on giant supercomputers.
"The main difference is that when you run it in in-house, you can get a wider range of information out because you have much greater resources to store and transfer data," commented Vicky Pope, head of the climate prediction programme at the Met Office.
"It's mainly been done as an educational tool, although the output is useful."
Distributed computing has been used before, notably by the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (Seti), where several million people have downloaded software enabling them to analyse data from observations of distant stars for signs of alien life.
Who else here uses shared computing; I don't due to the hassle of sa piece of software being installed on my computer.