CAP phase II simulations for the air force HEL-JTO project: Atmospheric turbulence simulations on NAVO's 3000-processor IBM P4+ and ARL's 2000-processor Intel Xeon EM64T cluster

  • J. Werne
  • , T. Lund
  • , D. Fritts
  • , B. A. Pettersson-Reif
  • , P. Sullivan

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Abstract

Shear turbulence induced by the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in a stratified fluid is simulated in support of the Air Force High-Energy-Laser Joint Tactical Office (HEL-JTO) project using the new 3000-processor NAVO IBM Power 4+ system (Kraken). The results are used to 1) compare with and improve a dynamic LES method we have developed, and 2) provide the high-resolution simulation component of a new subgrid-scale (SGS) model we have developed for optical turbulence forecasting. We also discuss the relative performance of Kraken and the new 2000-processor Intel XEON EM64T cluster (Jvn) at ARL, pointing out differences which amount primarily to inter-node network performance. We suggest "%of wall time spent communicating" as a standard DoD benchmark criterion for very large distributed systems, as other more conventional criteria do not necessarily represent this important system and algorithm metric.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the HPCMP Users Group Conference 2005
Pages100-111
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
EventDepartment of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program: HPCMP Users Group Conference 2005 - Nashville, TN, United States
Duration: Jun 27 2005Jun 30 2005

Publication series

NameDepartment of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program: Proceedings of the HPCMP Users Group Conference 2005
Volume2005

Conference

ConferenceDepartment of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program: HPCMP Users Group Conference 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNashville, TN
Period06/27/0506/30/05

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