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Experiments with WRF on Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel MIC) Architecture

  • Larry Meadows
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7312)

Abstract

WRF is a well-known weather code with a hybrid OpenMP and MPI implementation. This paper investigates the performance of WRF on heterogeneous hardware consisting of Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel MIC Architecture co-processors, using offload, OpenMP, and MPI.

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

Authors and Affiliations

  • Larry Meadows
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  1. 1.Intel CorporationHillsboroUSA

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