Parallel Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) using global arrays
The Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) code was parallelized for distributed memory computers using Global Arrays (GA). To analyze parallel performance, DHSVM was used to simulate two significantly sized river basins located in northwest continental United States and southwest Canad...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Environmental modelling & software : with environment data news 2019-09, Vol.122 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) code was parallelized for distributed memory computers using Global Arrays (GA). To analyze parallel performance, DHSVM was used to simulate two significantly sized river basins located in northwest continental United States and southwest Canada at 90~m resolution: (1) Clearwater (25,000~km2) and (2) Columbia (668,000~km2). Meteorological forcing applied to both basins was dynamically down-scaled from a global circulation model using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and read into DHSVM as 2D maps each time step. We report parallel code speed up was significant. Run times for 1-year simulations were reduced by an order of magnitude for both test basins. A maximum speed up of 105 was attained with 480 processors while simulating the Columbia basin. Speed up was limited by input dominated tasks, particularly the input of meteorological forcing data. |
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ISSN: | 1364-8152 1873-6726 |