Performance portability in the physical parameterizations of the community atmospheric model

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-201

  Worley, Patrick H ^a   Drake, John B ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; High performance computing; Performance portability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; DESIGN; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OPTIMIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE PORTABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY;

EID: 23844503894     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056095     Document Type: Article

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