Experience applying fortran GPU compilers to numerical weather prediction

Proceedings - 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, SAAHPC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 34-41

  Henderson, T ^a   Middlecoff, J ^a   Rosinski, J ^a   Govett, M ^b   Madden, P ^a  

^a Cooperative Institute for Research in Atmosphere ^*  (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphics processing units; High performance computing; Weather modeling

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DYNAMICAL CORE; FORTRAN COMPILERS; GPU PROCESSING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE GAIN; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT; WEATHER MODELING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 80055013146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAAHPC.2011.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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