Weather Modelling

Greg Lindahl glindahl at hpti.com
Thu Sep 14 09:46:41 PDT 2000


> I am looking for software for weather modelling that can be use on
> beowulf system?

One commonly-used weather code is MM5, which is a mesoscale model. It is
available in a variety of forms, one of which efficiently uses MPI.

See: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/mm5v3.html

An excellent software system for parallelizing problems like weather models
is SMS. It allows you to add a small number of HPF-like directives to a
serial program, and get an efficient parallel result:

See: http://www-ad.fsl.noaa.gov/ac/sms.html

-- greg





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