Articles | Volume 11, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3447-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3447-2018
Development and technical paper
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27 Aug 2018
Development and technical paper |  | 27 Aug 2018

Portable multi- and many-core performance for finite-difference or finite-element codes – application to the free-surface component of NEMO (NEMOLite2D 1.0)

Andrew R. Porter, Jeremy Appleyard, Mike Ashworth, Rupert W. Ford, Jason Holt, Hedong Liu, and Graham D. Riley

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Developing computer models in the earth-system domain is a complex and expensive process that can have a duration measured in years. The supercomputers required to run these models, however, are evolving fast with a proliferation of technologies and associated programming models. As a result there is a need that models be "performance portable" between different supercomputers. This paper investigates a way of doing this through a separation of the concerns of performance and natural science.
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