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Title: Design considerations and performance of a scalable version of a nonhydrostatic atmospheric model

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OSTI ID:12229

The Naval Research Laboratory's Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) is being developed into a parallel, scalable model in a joint collaborative effort with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The initial focus is on the atmospheric forecast model, which solves a coupled, three-dimensional set of dynamical equations using finite differences. A distributed/shared memory parallel programming paradigm is used. Distributed memory parallelism is achieved through a two-dimensional domain decomposition technique, with internodal communication accomplished using Message Passing Interface (MPI), and OpenMP is used to provide parallelism within a node. Initial performance results on both the IBM-SP and Cray-T3E are presented.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
12229
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC-133451; YN0100000; 99-SI-001; YN0100000; 99-SI-001; TRN: AH200119%%398
Resource Relation:
Conference: DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program User's Group Conference, Monterey, CA (US), 06/07/1999--06/10/1999; Other Information: PBD: 27 Apr 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English