A decade of parallel meteorological computing on the Flosolver

Sinha, UN and Nanjundaiah, Ravi S (1997) A decade of parallel meteorological computing on the Flosolver. In: Proceedings of the 7th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, 2-6 Nov 1996.

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Abstract

Meteorological computations have been conducted on the Flosolver series of parallel computers since 1988. The models implemented range from a zonally symmetric model to a spectral weather-forecasting GCM. The parallel models are being used to study the various facets of monsoon variations. Our experience over this period indicates that parallel platforms provide a competitive, cost-effective method of carrying out simulations of global as well as regional atmospheric calculations. Also, when the same basic code is run on different platforms, the differences between outputs (which in isolated areas of the globe may not be entirely negligible) are less due to degrees of precision in computing than due to differences in standards specifying implementation of floating point computations, especially between microprocessor-based and high-power single processor systems13;

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: geophysics computing;parallel processing;weather orecasting;parallel meteorological Computing;Flosolver;parallel computers;zonally symmetric model;spectral weather-forecasting GCM13; ;monsoon variations;simulations;regional atmospheric calculations;floating point computations
Subjects: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCES > Computer Programming and Software
GEOSCIENCES > Meteorology and Climatology
Depositing User: MS Jayashree S
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2007
Last Modified: 24 Aug 2015 08:32
URI: http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/4133

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