A distributed computing approach to improve the performance of the Parallel Ocean Program (v2.1)
| Autor: | B. van Werkhoven, J. Maassen, M. Kliphuis, H. A. Dijkstra, S. E. Brunnabend, M. van Meersbergen, F. J. Seinstra, H. E. Bal |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Geoscientific Model Development, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 267-281 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1991-959X 1991-9603 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/gmd-7-267-2014 |
| Popis: | The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) is used in many strongly eddying ocean circulation simulations. Ideally it would be desirable to be able to do thousand-year-long simulations, but the current performance of POP prohibits these types of simulations. In this work, using a new distributed computing approach, two methods to improve the performance of POP are presented. The first is a block-partitioning scheme for the optimization of the load balancing of POP such that it can be run efficiently in a multi-platform setting. The second is the implementation of part of the POP model code on graphics processing units (GPUs). We show that the combination of both innovations also leads to a substantial performance increase when running POP simultaneously over multiple computational platforms. |
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