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World-highest Resolution global Atmospheric Model and Its Performance on the Earth Simulator (ACM)

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Mechanisms of interactions among different scale phenomena play important roles for forecasting of weather and climate. Multi-scale Simulator for the Geoenvironment (MSSG), which deals with multi-scale multi-physics phenomena, is a coupled non-hydrostatic atmosphere-ocean model designed to be run efficiently on the Earth Simulator. We present its simulation results with the world-highest 1.9km horizontal resolution for the entire globe. To gain high performance by exploiting the system capabilities, we propose novel performance evaluation metrics that incorporate the effects of the data caching mechanism between CPU and memory. A potentially attainable computational performance is also introduced by evaluating both computational and memory intensities. With the useful code optimization guideline based on such metrics, we demonstrate that MSSG can achieve an excellent peak performance ratio of 32.2% on the Earth Simulator with the single-core performance found to be a key to reduced time-to-solution.

Paper available at ACM.

Improved GPU/CUDA Based Parallel Weather and Research Forecast (WRF) Single Moment 5-Class (WSM5) Cloud Microphysics (IEEE)

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The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is an atmospheric simulation system which is designed for both operational and research use. WRF is currently in operational use at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s national weather service as well as at the air force weather agency and meteorological services worldwide. Getting weather predictions in time using latest advances in atmospheric sciences is a challenge even on the fastest super computers. Timely weather predictions are particularly useful for severe weather events when lives and property are at risk. Microphysics is a crucial but computationally intensive part of WRF. WRF Single Moment 5-class (WSM5) microphysics scheme represents fallout of various types of precipitation, condensation and thermodynamics effects of latent heat release. Therefore, to expedite the computation process, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) appear an attractive alternative to traditional CPU architectures. In this paper, we accelerate the WSM5 microphysics scheme on GPUs and obtain a considerable speedup thereby significantly reducing the processing time. Such high performance and computationally efficient GPUs allow us to use higher resolution WRF forecasts. The use of high resolution WRF enables us to compute microphysical processes for increasingly small clouds and water droplets. To implement WSM5 scheme on GPUs, the WRF code was rewritten into CUDA C, a high level data-parallel programming language used on NVIDIA GPU. We observed a reduction in processing time from 16928 ms on CPU to 43.5 ms on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). We obtained a speedup of 389x without I/O using a single GPU. Taking I/O transfer times into account, the speedup obtained is 206 $times$. The speedup was further increased by using four GPUs, speedup being 1556x and 357x for without I/O and with I/O, respectively.

Paper available at IEEE.

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Exploring Multi-level Parallelism in Atmospheric Applications (IEEE)

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Forecast precisions of climatological models are limited by computing power and time available for the executions. The more and faster processors are used in the computation, the resolution of the mesh adopted to represent the Earth's atmosphere can be increased, and consequently the numerical forecasts are more accurate. With the introduction of multi-core processors and GPU boards, computer architectures have many parallel layers. Today, there are parallelism inside a processor, among processors and among computers. In order to best utilize the performance of the computers it is necessary to consider all parallel levels to distribute a concurrent application. However, no parallel programming interface abstracts well these different parallel levels. Based in this context, this work proposes the use of mixed programming interfaces to improve performance to atmospheric models. The parallel execution of simulations shows that the use of GPUs and multi-core CPUs in distributed systems can reduce considerably the execution time of climatological applications.

Paper available at IEEE.

Porting Existing Radiation Code for GPU Acceleration (IEEE)

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Graphics processing units (GPUs) have proven very robust architectures for performing intensive scientific calculations, resulting in speedups as high as several hundred times. In this paper, the GPU acceleration of a radiation code for use in creating simulated satellite observations of predicted climate change scenarios is explored, particularly the prospect of porting an already existing and widely used radiation transport code to a GPU version that fully exploits the parallel nature of GPUs. The porting process is attempted with a simple radiation code, revealing that this process centers on creating many copies of variables and inlining function/subroutine calls. A resulting speedup of about 25x is reached. This is less than the speedup achieved from a radiation code built for CUDA from scratch, but it was achieved with an already existing radiation code using the PGI Accelerator to automatically generate CUDA kernels, and this demonstrates a possible strategy to speed up other existing models like MODTRAN and LBLRTM.

Paper available at IEEE.

 

Simulations of a Microjet RF HE-N2 Discharge with a Hybrid Code (IEEE)

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Summary form only given. In this work we study a He-N2 RF-driven microjet discharge under atmospheric pressure using a hybrid numerical code, where electrons are treated kinetically using a PIC/MCC scheme and the ions are described within the framework of a fluid approximation. In this way, one can efficiently study the effects caused by non-Maxwellian groups of electrons while simulating all the complex chemistry connected with different ions and neutrals, which are not expected to exhibit kinetic behavior. The kinetic part of the corresponding hybrid code is parallelized on a GPU to speed-up the calculations. We discuss the kinetic effects that stem from the fast electrons present in such discharges.

Paper available at IEEE.

 

Implementation of the WRF-Chem model in Grid Computing and GPU for Regional Air Quality Forecasting (IEEE)

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WRF-Chem is the WRF coupled with Chemistry. The model simulates the coupling between atmospheric dynamics, radiation and chemistry, and is used for investigation of regional-scale air quality, field program analysis, and cloud-scale interactions between clouds and chemistry. WRF-Chem can predict transport of atmospheric constituents and radiation of O3 and UV [1]. The WRF-Chem processing takes long execution time, and needs high storage space. The porting to Grid Computing and GPU can significantly reduce the overall run-time, since the model supports distributed and shared memory computations. Grid Computing and GPU are two innovative technologies in High Performance Computing, aiming to accelerate compute-intensive applications.

Paper available at IEEE.

 

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