NASA climate models

[aerohead]

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelE/sc07/
So, between datasets and software,
'anyone' can work with what NASA works with.
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A year or so ago, the FORTRAN code ran to 36,000- pages.
It requires a super-computer to run it.
( a computer to run an automotive CFD program like Tesla uses costs around $330,000.
Good luck!

[freebeard]

A year is a long time in the Supercomputer world.

In July 2011, the 8.1 petaflop Japanese K computer became the fastest in the world using over 60,000 SPARC64 VIIIfx processors housed in over 600 cabinets. The fact that K computer is over 60 times faster than the Earth Simulator, and that the Earth Simulator ranks as the 68th system in the world seven years after holding the top spot demonstrates both the rapid increase in top performance and the widespread growth of supercomputing technology worldwide.[42][43][44] By 2014, the Earth Simulator had dropped off the list and by 2018 K computer had dropped out of the top 10. By 2018, Summit had become the world's most powerful supercomputer, at 200 petaFLOPS. In 2020, the Japanese once again took the top spot with the Fugaku supercomputer, capable of 442 PFLOPS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...e_21st_century

These supercomputers are reaching the limit of Von Neumann architecture and are being mooted by analogy neuromorphic chip architectures.

Originally Posted by DDG

The von Neumann Bottleneck Revisited - SIGARCH
https://www.sigarch.org › the-von-neumann-bottleneck-revisited
The term "von Neumann bottleneck" was coined by John Backus in his 1978 Turing Award lecture to refer to the bus connecting the CPU to the store in von Neumann architectures.

You might like the aerodynamic considerations driving SpaceX:

How To Make A SpaceX Super Heavy Booster Glide Like A Wing?

[Piotrsko]

More like gliding using a streamlined brick

[freebeard]

aerobraking [is greater than] lithobraking.