Cross-platform performance of a portable communication module and the NASA finite volume general circulation model

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-223

  Putman, William M ^a   Lin, Shian Jiann ^b   Shen, Bo Wen ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Communication library; Finite volume GCM; MLP; MPI 1; MPI 2; Portability; Scalability; SHMEM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; USER INTERFACES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMMUNICATION LIBRARY; FINITE VOLUME GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 23844545845     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056101     Document Type: Article

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