Progress towards accelerating HOMME on hybrid multi-core systems

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 335-347

  Carpenter, I ^a   Archibald, R K ^b   Evans, K J ^b   Larkin, J ^c   Micikevicius, P ^d   Norman, M ^b   Rosinski, J ^e   Schwarzmeier, J ^f   Taylor, M A ^g  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Cray Incorporated   (United States)

^d NVIDIA   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CRAY INC   (United States)

^g SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

CAM; GPU; HOMME; scalability; tracer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY EXCHANGES; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL WORK; GPU; HOMME; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE PROFILE; TRACER;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CAMS; SCALABILITY;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84874804003     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342012462751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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