[Wrf-users] WRF on IBM world community grid

[Jan Ploski]

wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu schrieb am 10/10/2007 05:51:13 PM:

> Dear WRF users,
> 
> The Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) based at the University of 
> Cape Town (UCT) is pleased to announce that WRF is being used in a 
> joint project with a IBM to understand climate change processes in 
> Africa using Grid Computing. Since the beginning of September, we 
> made 'AfricanClimate at Home' available on www.worldcommunitygrid.org. 
> Any home user can log to this site, download the project agent and 
> start donating idle CPU time to our research by running WRF on their
> local machine. We would like to thank the IBM team for their effort 
> in making this possible and also the feedback received from the 
> model developers during the process.
> 
> We would like to emphasize that this opens several opportunities for
> using WRF for this kind of platform. World Community Grid is a 
> powerful tool used to perform the highly demanding computer 
> simulations that normal model users face everyday. In our case this 
> platform made possible to conduct the kind of research that would 
> take a much longer time with the usual resources we have at our 
disposal.

Hello,

Do you have a technical paper explaining in more detail how WRF is used? 
In particular I'd like to know to what extent you employ parallelism - do 
the worker machines communicate with each other during integration? How 
does it compare to WRF in a HPC environment? Do you use the standard WRF 
functions for checkpointing/restarting the model?

Best regards,
Jan Ploski

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