Plans are a bit vague, but with a planned switch-on date of 2010 it would probably leapfrog all the competition by quite a way, as the Earth Simulator did back in 2001.You can find out more about it here and here, but only in Japanese!I believe the research remit for ths use of this new machine might be slightly broader than the current Earth System Science focus (hence Simulator 2, not Earth Simu