Developments in Teracomputing: Proceedings of the Ninth Ecmwf Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology Reading, Uk November 13-17, 2000

by Zwieflhofer, Walter; Kreitz, Norbert

• ISBN13: 9789810247614
• ISBN10: 9810247613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Proceedings of the Ninth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology held November 13-17, 2000, in Reading, U.K. Provides an overview of the latest achievements in, and plans for the use of, new parallel techniques in meteorology, climatology and oceanography.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Research and development of the earth simulator	1	(13)
K. Yoshida
S. Shingu
Parallel computing at Canadian Meteorological Centre	14	(8)
J. -P. Toviessi
A. Patoine
G. Lemay
M. Desgagne
M. Valin
A. Qaddouri
V. Lee
J. Cote
Parallel elliptic solvers for the implicit global variable-resolution grid-point GEM model: Iterative and fast direct methods	22	(14)
A. Qaddouri
J. Cote
IFS developments	36	(17)
D. Dent
M. Hamrud
G. Mozdzynski
D. Salmond
C. Temperton
Performance of parallelized forecast and analysis models at JMA	53	(9)
Y. Oikawa
Building a scalable parallel architecture for spectral GCMS	62	(11)
T. N. Venkatesh
U. N. Sinha
R. S. Nanjundiah
Semi-implicit spectral element methods for atmospheric general circulation models	73	(19)
R. D. Loft
S. J. Thomas
Experiments with NCEP's spectral model	92	(8)
J. -F. Estrade
Y. Tremolet
J. Sela
The implementation of I/O servers in NCEP's ETA model on the IBM SP	100	(4)
J. Tuccillo
Implementation of a complete weather forecasting suite on PARAM 10 000	104	(6)
S. C. Purohit
A. Kaginalkar
J. V. Ratnam
J. Raman
M. Bali
Parallel load balance system of regional multiple scale advanced prediction system	110	(9)
J. Zhiyan
Grid computing for meteorology	119	(8)
G. -R. Hoffmann
The requirements for an active archive at the Met Office	127	(7)
M. Carter
Intelligent support for high I/O requirements of leading edge scientific codes on high-end computing systems --- The ESTEDI project	134	(16)
K. Kleese
P. Baumann
Coupled marine ecosystem modelling on high-performance computers	150	(14)
M. Ashworth
R. Proctor
J. T. Holt
J. I. Allen
J. C. Blackford
OpenMP in the physics portion of the Met Office model	164	(13)
R. W. Ford
P. M. Burton
Converting the Halo-update subroutine in the Met Office unified model to co-array Fortran	177	(12)
P. M. Burton
B. Carruthers
G. S. Fischer
B. H. Johnson
R. W. Numrich
Parallel ice dynamics in an operational Baltic Sea model	189	(12)
T. Wilhelmsson
Parallel coupling of regional atmosphere and ocean models	201	(13)
S. Frickenhaus
R. Redler
P. Post
Dynamic load balancing for atmospheric models	214	(14)
G. Karagiorgos
N. M. Missirlis
F. Tzaferis
HPC in Switzerland: New developments in numerical weather prediction	228	(12)
M. Ballabio
A. Mangili
G. Corti
D. Maric
J. -M. Bettems
E. Zala
G. de Morsier
J. Quiby
The role of advanced computing in future weather prediction	240	(11)
A. E. MacDonald
The scalable modeling system: A high-level alternative to MPI	251	(18)
M. Govett
J. Middlecoff
L. Hart
T. Henderson
D. Schaffer
Development of a next-generation regional weather research and forecast model	269	(8)
J. Michalakes
S. Chen
J. Dudhia
L. Hart
J. Klemp
J. Middlecoff
W. Skamarock
Parallel numerical kernels for climate models	277	(19)
V. Balaji
Using accurate arithmetics to improve numerical reproducibility and stability in parallel applications	296	(22)
Y. He
C. H. Q. Ding
Parallelization of a GCM using a hybrid approach on the IBM SP2	318	(9)
S. Cocke
Z. Christidis
Developments in high performance computing at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center	327	(11)
K. D. Pollak
R. M. Clancy
The computational performance of the NCEP seasonal forecast model on Fujitsu VPP5000 at ECMWF	338	(10)
H. -M. H. Juang
M. Kanamitsu
Panel experience on using high performance computing in meteorology---Summary of the discussion	348	(5)
P. Prior
List of participants	353