[Wrf-users] What is a reasonable speed for WRF / how to increase it?

[Carlos Ross]

I think it should be faster, Xeon x5650 CPUs are 6 cores and 12 threads, so
you maybe using 2 process in one core and that is slowing it down.

2016-08-31 18:36 GMT-03:00 Wang, Yaoping <wang.3866 at buckeyemail.osu.edu>:

> Hi All,
>
>
> I am running WRF on a ~6km resolution, 91 x 121 domain in the eastern
> United States. I am using an adaptive time step which makes it mostly 72
> sec increments. There are 34 vertical levels. I use 4 x 12 cores on
> a Intel Xeon x5650 CPUs machine. The throughput is about 1.2 hour wall
> time per 24 hours model time.
>
>
> Is this a reasonable speed? I found some information here (
> http://www.ecmwf.int/sites/default/files/elibrary/2014/
> 13662-performance-analysis-operational-implementaion-wrf.pdf) and after
> considering the domain difference, my run still seems a touch slow. And is
> there anyway I could figure how to make the model run faster?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Yaoping Wang
>
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