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If ocean modellers are to continue doing useful research particularly in the area of global and climate modelling, it is essential that they effectively utilise today’s computing technology. Increasingly, this means parallel computers. To ease this transition, the Southampton - East Anglia model has been developed and is suitable for running in a wide range of configurations, on a wide range of platforms; from scalar workstations to clusters of workstations and massively parallel processor systems, rather than vector processors. Using high-level message passing routines the technical intricacies of parallelism are, as much as possible, hidden from the users, thus allowing them to concentrate on the ocean science, but at the same time enabling them to maximise the utilisation of whatever compute resources they have available to them.
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Beare, M.I. (1999). The Southampton - East Anglia (Sea) Model: A General Purpose Parallel Ocean Circulation Model. In: Allan, R.J., Guest, M.F., Simpson, A.D., Henty, D.S., Nicole, D.A. (eds) High-Performance Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4873-7_36
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