Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-905-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-905-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
Development and technical paper
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18 Feb 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 18 Feb 2025

The real challenges for climate and weather modelling on its way to sustained exascale performance: a case study using ICON (v2.6.6)

Panagiotis Adamidis, Erik Pfister, Hendryk Bockelmann, Dominik Zobel, Jens-Olaf Beismann, and Marek Jacob

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In this paper, we investigated performance indicators of the climate model ICON (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic) on different compute architectures to answer the question of how to generate high-resolution climate simulations. Evidently, it is not enough to use more computing units of the conventionally used architectures; higher memory throughput is the most promising approach. More potential can be gained from single-node optimization rather than simply increasing the number of compute nodes.
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