Pushing the Frontiers of Climate and Weather Models: High-Performance Computing, Numerical Techniques and Physical Consistency
SESSION: Pushing the Frontiers of Climate and Weather Models: High-Performance Computing, Numerical Techniques and Physical Consistency
EVENT TYPE: Panel
TIME: 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Panelists:Christiane Jablonowski, David Randall, Terry Davies, William Putman, Shian-Jiann Lin, Peter Lauritzen
ROOM:384-385
ABSTRACT: The climate and numerical weather prediction community has worked
feverishly over the last several decades to successfully port
atmospheric models to high performance computers. The emergence of
new, massively parallel architectures incorporating multi-core /
many-core processors is yet another challenge. The community is
taking on this challenge aggressively by revising and optimizing
existing algorithms, proposing new numerical techniques, and employing
innovative semi-structured grids to describe the earth's atmosphere.
Our panelists are all accomplished in the leading edge of modeling on
high performance computers. They will present and discuss the variety
of techniques used and being developed today for the latest parallel
architectures, analyze the numerical issues which result from the need
to attain high performance, and will shed light on the future of
climate modeling and numerical weather prediction. The session will
end with questions from the audience to the panel.
Moderator/Panelist Details:
Christiane Jablonowski (Moderator) - University of Michigan
David Randall - Colorado State University
Terry Davies - UK Meteorological Office
William Putman - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Shian-Jiann Lin - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Peter Lauritzen - National Center for Atmospheric Research
