145 TFlops performance on 3990 GPUs of TSUBAME 2.0 supercomputer for an operational weather prediction

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 1535-1544

  Shimokawabe, Takashi ^a   Aoki, Takayuki ^a,c   Ishida, Junichi ^b   Kawano, Kohei ^b   Muroi, Chiashi ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GPGPU; High performance computing; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; GPGPU; GPU COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PRECISION; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RUNTIMES; SINGLE PRECISION; TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; WEATHER PREDICTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79958268442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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