Directive-based parallelization of the NIM weather model for GPUs

Proceedings of WACCPD 2014: 1st Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives - Held in Conjunction with SC 2014: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 55-61

  Govett, Mark ^a   Middlecoff, Jacques ^b   Henderson, Tom ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerator; Compiler; GPGPU; Multicore; Numerical weather prediction; OpenACC; Parallelization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM COMPILERS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPILER; GPGPU; MULTI-CORES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPENACC; PARALLELIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SINGLE SOURCE; SOURCE CODES; WEATHER MODELING;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84930468287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WACCPD.2014.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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