Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
on a Mac OS X System
Tracey Holloway, John Bachan, Scott Spak
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Distribution Tools
standardized profiles QuickTime and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
PackageMaker
FAT binaries
automated installation
Operation & Development.
Motivation: Performance.
Unique Hardware Advantages
powerful PPC 970 vector chip
auto-vectorizing compilers
2000 NASA Langley report
Populist Parallelization
mix dedicated cluster nodes with free cycles on
personal & lab machines
off-the-shelf solutions
simple GUI and command-line tools
Quick Timea nd a
TIFF ( Unco mpre ssed ) dec ompr esso r
ar e nee ded to see this pictur e.
Methods.
IBM XL Fortan v8.1 compiler
auto-vectorization
equivalent to AIX
Modifications
flag conversion
build settings
array passing
> 400 man-hours
Performance.
2 Test Machines
dual 2 GHz G5, 5 GB RAM, 1 GHz bus
stock dual 1 GHz G4, 1.5 GB RAM, 133 MHz bus
Mac OS X 10.3.5
1 Test Run
First day of CMAQ 4.3 tutorial
1 day, 32 km x 32 km, 38 x 38, 6 layers
default EBI CB4 chemistry
Benchmarks.
Tutorial Runtime by Hardware and Compiler
(seconds)
Consistent
G4/G5
chemistry modules
compiler flags
Better Chemistry.
Tutorial Runtime by Chemistry Module (seconds)
Currently no PAVE,
but Vis5d, VisAd, GrADS, NCL, and
Hardware.
Hardware.
Dedicated Cluster
18 G5 processors
XServe G5 Dual 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Xserve RAID 3.5 TB
8 Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz, 5 GB
RAM
QuickTime and a
SCOTT
TIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Release.
Following input from the CMAS Center
alpha code to CMAS by November, 2004
CMAS testing
potential support
Following CMAS Testing, preliminary code,
scripts, binaries, instructions
available for download at
www.sage.wisc.edu/cmaq
Scott Spak will answer questions for early
users: snspak@wisc.edu
Ongoing improvements.
Our planned activities
g95 - GNU compilation A community effort?
parallel implementations CMAQ Unified
Condor MIMS
Xgrid PAVE
Pooch/Appleseed
further optimization
Dual 2.5 GHz
benchmarks
CMAQ MADRID
Acknowledgements.
Mary Sternitzky, UW
Seth Price, UW
Hans Vahlenkamp and NOAA GFDL
Zac Adelman and the CMAS Help Desk
Dr. Gail Tonnesen and Glen Kaukola, UCR
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