An 80-fold speedup, 15.0 TFlops GPU acceleration of non-hydrostatic weather model ASUCA production code

2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shimokawabe, Takashi ^a   Aoki, Takayuki ^a,c   Muroi, Chiashi ^b   Ishida, Junichi ^b   Kawano, Kohei ^b   Endo, Toshio ^a,c   Nukada, Akira ^a,c   Maruyama, Naoya ^a,c   Matsuoka, Satoshi ^a,c,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST SIMULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MEMORY PERFORMANCE; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; SINGLE PRECISION; TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; WEATHER CODES; WEATHER MODELS; WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL;

HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78650819651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2010.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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