[Wrf-users] How to estimate the Wall-Clock Time for WRF

[Jerry Leo]

Hi,
 
 
The latest WRF doesn't support SGI MIPS platform anymore. Before purchasing a new platform, I need to estimate the Wall-clock time on it. But I failed to find a similar environment to do the benchmark. 
 
Does anyone know how to estimate the Wall-Clock Time for WRF in theory?
 
Ps, Now I run WRFv2.2 on a SGI Origin 350 box with 16 700MHz CPUs, it takes about 37 mins to do 24Hrs forecast.  

 
Any comments will be appreciated.
 
 
Thanks
 
 
Jerry
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