Every second year the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) hosts a workshop on the use of high performance computing in meteorology. This year’s workshop on High Performance Computing in Meteorology was held from 30 October to 3 November 2006.
Description
At the workshop there was an emphasis on running meteorological applications at sustained teraflops performance in a production environment, and on the application specific developments required to move towards petaflops computing.
Our aim was to provide a venue where:
- Users from our Member States and around the world could report on their experience and achievements in the field of high performance computing during the last two years; plans for the future and requirements for computing power were also presented.
- Vendors of supercomputers had the opportunity to talk to managers and end users of meteorological computer centres about their current and future products.
- Meteorological scientists could present their achievements in the development of parallel computing techniques and algorithms, and could exchange ideas on the use of supercomputers in future research.
- Computer scientists could give an update on their efforts in providing tools which will help users to exploit the power of supercomputers in the field of meteorology.
- The challenges of creating a computer centre infrastructure for HPC could be discussed.
Programme
Presentations
Session 1 |
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Development of the ECMWF Forecasting System Adrian Simmons |
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Computational Efficiency of the ECMWF Forecasting System Deborah Salmond |
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Session 2 |
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NCAR developments in production computing Tom Bettge |
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NERSC Experience: Implementation of a Facility Wide Global File System William Kramer |
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Recent developments of NCEP GFS for High Performance Computing Henry Juang |
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Multi-Scale Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean GCM and Simulations Keiko Takahashi |
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HPC Activities in the Earth System Research Laboratory Mark Govett |
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High performance computing activities at CPTEC Jairo Panetta |
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The status of HPC infrastructure and NWP operation in KMA Nam-Ouk Kim |
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The opportunities and challenges for PetaFlop computational science and engineering Douglass Post |
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Update on Cray Activities in the Earth Sciences Segment Per Nyberg |
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Session 6 |
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Fujitsu's Vision for high performance computing Motoi Okuda |
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IBM high performance computing technology roadmap Don Grice |
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NEC HPC strategy and products Toshiyuki Furui |
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Session 7 |
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Linux Networx HPC strategy and roadmap Eric Pitcher |
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SGI high performance computing for earth sciences Ilene Carpenter |
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HPC strategy and direction for meteorological modelling Hans Joraandstad |
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Session 8 |
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GEMS: Global environmental monitoring and forecasting: Extending weather forecast & assimilation systems to encompass greenhouse gases, reactive gases and aerosols Tony Hollingsworth |
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Variational Kalman filtering of nonlinear dynamic systems on parallel computers Tuomo Kauranne |
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Reprocessing facilities for NWP Reanalysis Richard Bosworth |
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Session 9 |
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RAPS Workshop: Progress Report George Mozdzynski |
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Preparing "Lokal Modell" for next generation regional weather forecasting and computing - Algorithms, Software Architecture, Parallel Performance Ulrich Schattler |
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Optimizing IO performance in ECHAM5-HAM Mark Cheeseman |
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Session 10 |
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ORAP: a French initiative to promote HPC Marie Alice Foujols |
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An overview of HPC at the Met Office Paul Selwood |
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A new partitioning approach for ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) George Mozdzynski |
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Session 11 |
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Just on time to face new challenges with NEC super-computing in Meteo France Jean-Francois Estrade |
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What SMT (Simultaneous Multi Threading) can do for you John Hague |
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Flexible coupling for performance Rupert Ford |
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Session 12 |
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Performance measurements of ECMWF RAPS benchmarks on x86_64 architectures Dirk Merten |
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Performance of the ECMWF RAPS9 IFS benchmark on the NEC SX-8 super-computer Mike O'Neill |
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The performance of the COSMOS coupled model at DKRZ and ECMWF Luis Kornblueh |
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Session 13 |
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A new computational design for a Global Icosahedral Model Alexander MacDonald |
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Tools, trends and techniques for developing scientific software Thomas Clune |
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Structural programming in parallel Tarmo Kaldma |
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Session 14 |
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Analytic MPI scalability modeling on a flat interconnect George VandenBerghe |
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Performance comparison of capability application benchmarks on the IBM p5-575 and the Cray XT3 Mike Ashworth |
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Tuning ECMWF's RAPS9 benchmark for Intel (r) platforms Nikita Panov |
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The role of precision in meteorological computing: A study using the NMITLI Varsha GCM Tirupathur Venkatesh |
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High performance storage solutions from DataDirect Networks Toine Beckers |
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Advanced cluster software for meteorology Henry Strauss |
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