Investigating solution convergence in a global ocean model using a 2048-processor cluster of distributed shared memory machines

Scientific Programming

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-115

  Hill, Chris ^a   Menemenlis, Dimitris ^b   Ciotti, Bob ^c   Henze, Chris ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Ocean modeling; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACE RESEARCH;

DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY MACHINES; NUMA ALTIX SYSTEMS; OCEAN MODELING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547308073     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/458463     Document Type: Article

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