GPU acceleration of the dynamics routine in the HIRLAM weather forecast model

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 31-38

  Vu, Van Thieu ^a   Cats, Gerard ^b   Wolters, Lex ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CUDA; Dynamics; GPGPU; Large scale scientific computing; Numerical weather prediction model; Parallelization of simulation

Indexed keywords

CUDA; GPGPU; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PARALLELIZATIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77956976075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCS.2010.5547152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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