Living Earth Simulator Project Explained

The Living Earth simulator is a proposed massive computer simulation system intended to simulate the interactions of all aspects of life, human economic activity, climate, and other physical processes on the planet Earth as part of the FuturICT project,[1] in response to the European FP7 "Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship" initiative.[2]

The Future and Emerging Technologies 'flagship' competition offered a 10-years, ~€1 billion funding to the winning teams; the competition attracted over 300 international teams.[3]

The FuturICT project was not selected and thus the Living Earth Simulator was never developed. The two winners, announced as of March 2013, were Graphene and Human Brain.[4]

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  1. Web site: Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'. Gareth Morgan. BBC News. 28 December 2010. 28 December 2010.
  2. Web site: FutureICT. 29 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110127020300/http://www.futurict.ethz.ch/FuturICT . 27 January 2011 .
  3. Rockel. Nick. Project save the world. Institutional Investor. May 2012. 21.
  4. Web site: Research prize boost for Europe. Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeier. nature. 29 January 2013.