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DTSTART:20121113T223000Z
DTEND:20121113T230000Z
LOCATION:355-EF
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Accurate and timely prediction of weather phenomena, such as hurricanes and flash floods, require high-fidelity compute intensive simulations of multiple finer regions of interest within a coarse simulation domain. Current weather applications execute these nested simulations sequentially using all the available processors, which is sub-optimal due to their sublinear scalability. In this work, we present a strategy for parallel execution of multiple nested domain simulations based on partitioning the 2-D processor grid into disjoint rectangular regions associated with each domain. We propose a novel combination of performance prediction, processor allocation methods and topology-aware mapping of the regions on torus interconnects. Experiments on IBM Blue Gene systems using WRF show that the proposed strategies result in performance improvement of up to 33% with topology-oblivious mapping and up to additional 7% with topology-aware mapping over the default sequential strategy.
SUMMARY:A Divide and Conquer Strategy for Scaling Weather Simulations with Multiple Regions of Interest
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