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Multilayered Heterogeneous Parallelism Applied to Atmospheric Constituent Transport Simulation

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dc.contributor.authorLinford, John C.en
dc.contributor.authorSandu, Adrianen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-19T14:35:53Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-19T14:35:53Zen
dc.date.issued2008-10-01en
dc.description.abstractHeterogeneous multicore chipsets with many levels of parallelism are becoming increasingly common in high-performance computing systems. Effective use of parallelism in these new chipsets constitutes the challenge facing a new generation of large scale scientific computing applications. This study examines methods for improving the performance of two-dimensional and three-dimensional atmospheric constituent transport simulation on the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA). A function offloading approach is used in a 2D transport module, and a vector stream processing approach is used in a 3D transport module. Two methods for transferring incontiguous data between main memory and accelerator local storage are compared. By leveraging the heterogeneous parallelism of the CBEA, the 3D transport module achieves performance comparable to two nodes of an IBM BlueGene/P, or eight Intel Xeon cores, on a single PowerXCell 8i chip. Module performance on two CBEA systems, an IBM BlueGene/P, and an eight-core shared-memory Intel Xeon workstation are given.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00001047/en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00001047/01/techreport.pdfen
dc.identifier.trnumberTR-08-21en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/20117en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Science Technical Reportsen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectParallel computationen
dc.titleMultilayered Heterogeneous Parallelism Applied to Atmospheric Constituent Transport Simulationen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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