Performance and portability of an air quality model

被引:10
作者
Dabdub, D [1 ]
Manohar, R
机构
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Mech Engn, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[2] CALTECH, Dept Comp Sci, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
关键词
regional air-quality modeling; parallel computing performance; communication; software portability;
D O I
10.1016/S0167-8191(97)00108-7
中图分类号
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号
081202 ;
摘要
We present a portable, parallel implementation of an urban air quality model. The parallel model runs on the Intel Delta, Intel Paragon, IBM SP2, and Gray T3D, using a variety of standard communication libraries. We analyze the performance of the air quality model on these platforms based on a model derived from the parallel communication behavior and sequential execution time of the air quality model. We predict the performance of the next generation air quality models based on this analysis. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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页码:2187 / 2200
页数:14
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