The project investigated the effect of four parameters describing the fire regime:

• timing of the fires,
• fire intensity,
• the area burned,
• the length of the succession period,

using a Latin hypercube design. This produced an experiment requiring the equivalent of ~360 weeks of serial computing. The experiment used seven clusters spread around the world.

Results were presented at The 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 2005.
and in more detail here. Computing aspects are outlined here and here.

A. H. Lynch, J. Beringer, P. Kershaw, A. Marshall, S. Mooney, N. Tapper, C. Turney, and S. Van Der Kaars, Using the Paleorecord to Evaluate Climate and Fire Interactions in Australia,Annual Review of Earth & Planetary Sciences, 35 (2007) 215–39.

Lynch, A. H., D. Abramson, K. Görgen, J. Beringer and P. Uotila, The influence of savanna fire on Australian monsoon season precipitation and circulation as simulated using a distributed computing environment, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, (2007) L20801, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030879.

Abramson, D., A. Lynch, H. Takemiya, Y. Tanimura, S. Date, H. Nakamura, K. Jeong, J. Zhu, Z. Lu, H.-C. Lee, C.-W. Wang, H.-L. Shih, T. Molina, K. Baldridge, W. W. Li, P.A. Arzberger, Deploying Scientific Applications to the PRAGMA Grid Testbed: Strategies and Lessons, Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'06), (2006) 241-248.