Title :
Parallel Processing on WRF Meteorological Data Using MPICH
Author :
Wu, Yongfen ; Xu, Guanghui ; Zhao, Anlai ; Tan, Yanqing
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Command Autom., PLA Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
MPICH is a freeware for implementing message passing interface (a utility library for parallel computing). It has been widely used as a major technique in parallel computing on a cluster system. In this paper, we focus on the MPICH-based parallel application for processing meteorological data. After building up a small-scale and MPICH-installed PC cluster, we parallelize the algorithm for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorological model. Experimental results using the parallel model are compared with the results using the Galaxy V mainframe. We find that the parallel cluster can be reasonably considered as the parallel facility for small-scale HPC applications.
Keywords :
geophysics computing; message passing; meteorology; parallel processing; weather forecasting; Galaxy V mainframe; MPICH; MPICH-installed PC cluster; WRF meteorological data; freeware; message passing interface; parallel cluster; parallel processing; small-scale HPC applications; weather research and forecasting meteorological model; Computational modeling; Numerical models; Parallel processing; Predictive models; Servers; Weather forecasting; MPICH; distributed; meteorological data; parallel computing;
Conference_Titel :
Internet Computing for Science and Engineering (ICICSE), 2012 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Henan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1683-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICICSE.2012.12
