Computing

Since the arrival of personal computers the TRL has adopted a policy of contemporary computing.   Each year, as the computing power of commercial products improves, so must our abilities to use the new products.  Today the software development skills of TRL scientists help define the cutting edge of the discipline.  New programs and products that feature the latest developments from the computing world are constantly employed to support TRL research.  Computer advances in just the last decade have revolutionized the way tree-ring research is done.  Not long ago, a site of twenty trees, forty cores, would have taken a month to process and analyze for a single experiment.  Thanks to advances in processor speed and software development, networks of 10’s of thousands of trees can be analyzed, evaluated, and reanalyzed in the course of an hour.  Continual access to latest software and technology has contributed significantly to the course and contribution of TRL science.