A high-performance computing framework for Monte Carlo ocean color simulations

Autor: José C. Cunha, Tamito Kajiyama, Davide D'Alimonte
Přispěvatelé: NOVALincs, DI - Departamento de Informática
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
System
Neural-network
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Meteorology
Computer science
Computer Networks and Communications
Monte Carlo method
02 engineering and technology
Large-scale
01 natural sciences
European seas
Theoretical Computer Science
Hybrid Monte Carlo
ocean color
Scientific applications
Earth simulator
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

14. Life underwater
Kinetic Monte Carlo
Meris data
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
uncertainty
Monte Carlo simulation
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
high-performance computing
Parallel
Computer Science Applications
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Ocean color
Dynamic Monte Carlo method
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Monte Carlo method in statistical physics
Products
Performance computing
Algorithms
Software
Monte Carlo molecular modeling
Zdroj: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
instacron:RCAAP
Popis: The authors are grateful to Dr. Giuseppe Zibordi (E.C. Joint Research Centre, Italy) for his support from in situ marine radiometry perspectives. This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT/MEC) through the grant PEst-OE/EEI/UI0527/2011. Access to the Milipeia cluster (University of Coimbra, Portugal) was granted through the project 'Large-scale parallel Monte Carlo simulations for ocean colour applications.' Additional funding was granted through the ESA contract No. 22576/09/I-OL, ARG/003-025/1406/CIMA, and NOVA LINCS Ref. UID/CEC/04516/2013. This paper presents a high-performance computing (HPC) framework for Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the ocean color (OC) application domain. The objective is to optimize a parallel MC radiative transfer code named MOX, developed by the authors to create a virtual marine environment for investigating the quality of OC data products derived from in situ measurements of in-water radiometric quantities. A consolidated set of solutions for performance modeling, prediction, and optimization is implemented to enhance the efficiency of MC OC simulations on HPC run-time infrastructures. HPC, machine learning, and adaptive computing techniques are applied taking into account a clear separation and systematic treatment of accuracy and precision requirements for large-scale MC OC simulations. The added value of the work is the integration of computational methods and tools for MC OC simulations in the form of an HPC-oriented problem-solving environment specifically tailored to investigate data acquisition and reduction methods for OC field measurements. Study results highlight the benefit of close collaboration between HPC and application domain researchers to improve the efficiency and flexibility of computer simulations in the marine optics application domain. publishersversion published
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