GPU acceleration of numerical weather prediction

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 531-548

  Michalakes, John ^a   Vachharajani, Manish ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

CUDA; Graphics processing units; High performance computing; Weather modeling

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; CUDA; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; PROCESSOR POWERS; PROCESSOR SPEEDS; SCALING MODELS; SPEED-UP; VECTOR MACHINES; WEATHER MODELING; WEATHER MODELS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; IMAGE CODING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 57649229517     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626408003557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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