GPU acceleration of numerical weather prediction

IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Michalakes, John ^a   Vachharajani, Manish ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; PROCESSOR POWER; PROCESSOR SPEEDS; SCALING MODELS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 51049099597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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