Parallelization and I/O performance optimization of a global nonhydrostatic dynamical core using MPI

Wang, T., Zhuang, L., Kunkel, J., Xiao, S. and Zhao, C. (2020) Parallelization and I/O performance optimization of a global nonhydrostatic dynamical core using MPI. Computers, Materials & Continua, 63 (3). pp. 1399-1413. ISSN 1546-2226 doi: 10.32604/cmc.2020.09701

Abstract/Summary

The Global ‐ Regional Integrated forecast SysTem (GRIST) is the next- generation weather and climate integrated model dynamic framework developed by Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. In this paper, we present several changes made to the global nonhydrostatic dynamical (GND) core, which is part of the ongoing prototype of GRIST. The changes leveraging MPI and PnetCDF techniques were targeted at the parallelization and performance optimization to the original serial GND core. Meanwhile, some sophisticated data structures and interfaces were designed to adjust flexibly the size of boundary and halo domains according to the variable accuracy in parallel context. In addition, the I/O performance of PnetCDF decreases as the number of MPI processes increases in our experimental environment. Especially when the number exceeds 6000, it caused system-wide outages (SWO). Thus, a grouping solution was proposed to overcome that issue. Several experiments were carried out on the supercomputing platform based on Intel x86 CPUs in the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. The results demonstrated that the parallel GND core based on grouping solution achieves good strong scalability and improves the performance significantly, as well as avoiding the SWOs.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/92437
Identification Number/DOI	10.32604/cmc.2020.09701
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Publisher	Tech Science Press
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