Parallel computation of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) WDM5 cloud microphysics on a many-core GPU

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1032-1037

  Wang, Jun ^a   Huang, Bormin ^a   Huang, Allen ^a   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA/NEDIS   (United States)

Author keywords

CUDA; GPU; WDM5 microphysics scheme; WRF

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS DATA; C PROGRAMS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUDA; GPU; INPUT DATAS; MANY-CORE; MEMORY ACCESS; MICROPHYSICS; MIXING RATIOS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; OUTPUT DATA; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; SINGLE-THREADED; WEATHER RESEARCH; WRF; WRF MODEL;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; PHYSICS; RAIN;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84863011361     PISSN: 15219097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPADS.2011.160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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