Overview of the software design of the community climate system model

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-186

  Drake, John B ^a   Jones, Philip W ^b   Carr Jr , George R ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiphysics simulation; Parallel clusters

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; PERFORMANCE;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM; MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATION; PARALLEL CLUSTERS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23844488736     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056094     Document Type: Article

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