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Development and technical paper
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18 Jan 2016
Development and technical paper |
| 18 Jan 2016
Towards convection-resolving, global atmospheric simulations with the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) v3.1: an extreme scaling experiment
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
M. G. Duda
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
H. Kunstmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
University of Augsburg, Institute of Geography, Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg, Germany
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Short summary
We present an in-depth evaluation of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) with regards to technical aspects of performing model runs and scalability for medium-size meshes on several HPCs. We also demonstrate the model performance in terms of its capability to reproduce the dynamics of the West African monsoon and its associated precipitation in a pilot study. Finally, we conduct extreme scaling tests on a global 3km mesh with 65,536,002 horizontal grid cells on up to 458,752 cores.
We present an in-depth evaluation of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) with regards...
