About the Book

The geosciences, particularly numerical weather prediction, are demanding the highest levels of available computer power. Every second year, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, with its experience in using supercomputers in this field, organizes a workshop bringing together manufacturers, computer scientists, researchers and operational users to share their experiences and to learn about the latest developments. This book reports on the November 2000 workshop. It provides an excellent overview of the latest achievements in, and plans for the use of, new parallel techniques in meteorology, climatology and oceanography.

Table of Contents:
Research and development of the earth simulator, K. Yoshida and S. Shingu; parallel computing at Canadian Meteorological Centre, J-P Toviessi et al; parallel elliptic solvers for the implicit global variable-resolution grid-point GEM model - iterative and fast direct methods, A. Qaddouri and J Cote; IFS developments, D. Dent et al; performance of parallelized forecast and analysis models at JMA, Y. Oikawa; building a scalable parallel architecture for spectal GCMS, T.N. Venkatesh et al; semi-implicit spectral element methods for atmospheric general circulation models, R.D. Loft and S.J. Thomas; experiments with NCEP's spectral model, J-F Estrade et al; the implementation of I/O servers in NCEP's ETA model on the IBM SP, J. Tuccillo; implementation of a complete weather forecasting suite on PARAM 10 000, S.C. Purohit et al; parallel load balance system of regional multiple scale advanced prediction system, J. Zhiyan; grid computing for meteorology, G-R Hoffmann; the requirements for an active archive at the Met Office, M. Carter; intelligent support for high I/O requirements of leading edge scientific codes on high-end computing systems - the ESTEDI project, K. Kleese and P. Baumann; coupled marine ecosystem modelling on high-performance computers, M. Ashworth et al; OpenMP in the physics portion of the Met Office model, R.W. Ford and P.M. Burton; converting the halo-update subroutine in the Met Office unified model to co-array Fortran, P.M. Burton et al; parallel ice dynamics in an operational Baltic Sea model, T. Wilhelmsson; parallel coupling of regional atmosphere and ocean models, S. Frickenhaus et al; dynamic load balancing for atmospheric models, G. Karagiorgos et al; HPC in Switzerland - new developments in numerical weather prediction, M. Ballabio et al; the role of advanced computing in future weather prediction, A.E. MacDonald; the scalable modelling system - a high-level alternative to MPI, M. Govett et al; development of a next-generation regional weather research and forecast model, J. Michalakes et al; parallel numerical kernels for climate models, V. Balaji; using accurate arithmetics to improve numerical reproducibility and stability in parallel applications, Y. He and C.H.Q. Ding; parallelization of a GCM using a hybrid approach on the IBM SP2, S. Cocke and Z. Christidis; developments in high performance computing at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, K.D. Pollak and R.M. Clancy; the computational performance of the NCEP seasonal forecast model on Fujitsu VPP5000 at ECMWF, H-M H. Juang and M. Kanamitsu; panel experience on using high performance computing in meteorology - summary of the discussion, P. Prior.