Thirteenth Workshop on Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology, 3 - 7 November 2008
Presentations
Session 1
Jean-Noël Thépaut (ECMWF )
Development of the ECMWF forecasting system
Deborah Salmond (ECMWF)
IFS performance on the new IBM Power6 systems at ECMWF
Session 2
Mats Hamrud (ECMWF)
Preparing for future HPC systems - scalability of the ECMWF data assimilation system
Tim Pugh (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
From climate to weather coupled modelling, challenges for ACCESS
Michel Desgagné (Environment Canada)
High performance computing at the Canadian Meteorological Centres (CMC)
Session 3
Joachim Biercamp (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH)
The new HPC facility at DKRZ: Computing and data handling
Ryo Onishi (Earth Simulator Center)
Seamless simulations with Multi-Scale Simulator for the Geoenvironment (MSSG)
Session 4
Hann-Ming Henry Juang (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
Mass conserving positive definite semi-Lagrangian advection in NCEP GFS: decomposition of massively parallel computing without halo
Lars Nerger (Alfred Wegener Institute)
Sequential data assimilation on high-performance computers with the parallel data assimilation framework
Session 5
Kathy Yelick (EECS/NERSC)
Multicore meets Petascale: Opportunities and challenges
Don Grice (IBM Corporation)
Cell and climate modeling
Session 6
Per Nyberg (Cray Inc)
Update on Cray Activities in the Earth Sciences
Thomas Schoenemeyer (NEC Deutschland GmbH)
The NEC SX-9: The next step forward in computational meteorology
Session 7
David Barkai (Intel Corp)
HPC technologies for weather and climate simulations
Hans Joraandstad (Sun Microsystems)
Profiling and optimization of climate, ocean and weather codes on large clusters
Eng Lim Goh (Silicon Graphics)
Scalability of weather and climate codes: managing computational overheads in the many-core era
Session 8
Dave Norton (The Portland Group)
The Portland Group - Premier services success stories
Peter Towers (ECMWF)
IFS in the DEISA benchmark
Session 9
George Mozdzynski (ECMWF)
RAPS workshop: Progress report
John Reid (JKR Associates)
Parallel programming in Fortran with Coarrays
Robert Numrich (University of Minnesota)
Combining object-oriented techniques with co-arrays in Fortran 2008
Session 10
George Mozdzynski (ECMWF)
IFS scaling
Mike Ashworth (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
Exploring extreme scalability in scientific applications
John Hague (IBM)
Switch jitter
Session 11
Ulrich Schättler (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Further COSMO-model development or: Is it dangerous to buy a vector computer
Paul Selwood (Met Office)
Results from the UK Met Office HPC procurement
Luis Kornblueh (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
Porting and optimizing the cosmos coupled model on Power 6
Session 12
Jacques Philouze on behalf of David Lecomber (Allinea Software)
Simplifying complex software development environments at scale with Allinea tools
Brian Bonenfant and Jim Pioche (TotalView Technologies)
Improved SW troubleshooting with TotalView and ReplayEngine
Session 13
Geerd-Ruediger Hoffmann (Deutscher Wetterdienst) / Ulrich Trottenberg (Fraunhofer-Institut SCAI)
The petaflops challenge for NWP and climate research
Al Kellie (NCAR)
An update of activities at NCAR's Computational and Information Systems laboratory
Session 14
Jeff Smith (Earth System Research Lab/NOAA)
NOAA Modeling Portal
Roger Stocker (FNMOC)
Running operational weather models on FNMOC's Linux Networx Custom Supersystem
George VandenBerghe (NOAA/NCEP)
Mass storage and archive challenges at NCEP
Session 15
Hara Tabito (Japan Meteorological Agency)
Performance of the JMA NWP models on the PC cluster TSUBAME
Tuomo Kauranne(Lappeenranta University of Technology)
Variational ensemble kalman filtering on parallel computers
Petra Baumann(Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss)
What can a small country do? The MeteoSwiss implementation of the COSMO suite on the Cray XT4