Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1423-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1423-2019
Development and technical paper
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11 Apr 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 11 Apr 2019

HOMMEXX 1.0: a performance-portable atmospheric dynamical core for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

Luca Bertagna, Michael Deakin, Oksana Guba, Daniel Sunderland, Andrew M. Bradley, Irina K. Tezaur, Mark A. Taylor, and Andrew G. Salinger

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We use Kokkos, a C++ library for on-node parallelism, to achieve a performance-portable implementation of HOMME, the atmosphere component of the Earth Energy Exascale System Model. The increasing diversity of high-performance computing (HPC) architectures and the demand for higher resolutions create new challenges when writing efficient code. With Kokkos, we obtain a single code base that performs well on current HPC platforms and enables portable performance to future HPC architectures.
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