STORM: a Multibus system for climate modelling

Author

Abramson, David ; Cameron, Gordon ; Dix, Marcel

Author_Institution

Div. of Inf. Technol., CSIRO, Carlton, Vic., Australia

fYear

1993

Firstpage

96

Abstract

The authors consider the design of a multiprocessor, called STORM, for efficient execution of large global climate modeling programs. They begin by discussing the limitations of current shared and distributed memory multiprocessors and show that a shared memory machine with only partial processor/memory interconnection can provide a scalable platform for climate model programs. A detailed analysis is presented of some memory traces taken from CSIRO 4, a real model developed and used by the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research in Australia. A prototype of STORM built from Sun SparcStations is described.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; climatology; geophysics computing; multiprocessing programs; shared memory systems; CSIRO 4; Multibus system; STORM; Sun SparcStations; distributed memory multiprocessors; large global climate modeling programs; memory traces; partial processor/memory interconnection; scalable platform; shared memory multiprocessors; Atmospheric modeling; Australia; Equations; Information technology; Message passing; Prototypes; Storms; Sun; Systems engineering and theory; Terrestrial atmosphere;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1993, Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3230-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1993.270755

Filename

270755