The digital revolution of Earth-system science

P Bauer, PD Dueben, T Hoefler, T Quintino… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Computational science is crucial for delivering reliable weather and climate predictions.
However, despite decades of high-performance computing experience, there is serious …

Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning

M Sonnewald, R Lguensat, DC Jones… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress within physical oceanography has been concurrent with the increasing
sophistication of tools available for its study. The incorporation of machine learning (ML) …

Kilometer-scale climate models: Prospects and challenges

C Schär, O Fuhrer, A Arteaga, N Ban… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Currently major efforts are underway toward refining the horizontal resolution (or grid
spacing) of climate models to about 1 km, using both global and regional climate models …

Pan-European climate at convection-permitting scale: a model intercomparison study

S Berthou, EJ Kendon, SC Chan, N Ban, D Leutwyler… - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
We investigate the effect of using convection-permitting models (CPMs) spanning a pan-
European domain on the representation of precipitation distribution at a climatic scale. In …

SPIRAL: Extreme performance portability

F Franchetti, TM Low, DT Popovici… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the question of how to automatically map computational kernels to
highly efficient code for a wide range of computing platforms and establish the correctness of …

Near-global climate simulation at 1 km resolution: establishing a performance baseline on 4888 GPUs with COSMO 5.0

O Fuhrer, T Chadha, T Hoefler… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The best hope for reducing long-standing global climate model biases is by increasing
resolution to the kilometer scale. Here we present results from an ultrahigh-resolution non …

Evaluation of the convection‐resolving climate modeling approach on continental scales

D Leutwyler, D Lüthi, N Ban, O Fuhrer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Convection‐resolving models allow to explicitly resolve deep convection at horizontal grid
spacings of O (1 km). On current supercomputers, refining the grid spacing to the kilometer …

DeepQueueNet: Towards scalable and generalized network performance estimation with packet-level visibility

Q Yang, X Peng, L Chen, L Liu, J Zhang, H Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Network simulators are an essential tool for network operators, and can assist important
tasks such as capacity planning, topology design, and parameter tuning. Popular simulators …

Implications of a metric for performance portability

SJ Pennycook, JD Sewall, VW Lee - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
The term “performance portability” has been informally used in computing to refer to a variety
of notions which generally include:(1) the ability to run one application across multiple …

Domain-specific multi-level ir rewriting for gpu: The open earth compiler for gpu-accelerated climate simulation

T Gysi, C Müller, O Zinenko, S Herhut, E Davis… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Most compilers have a single core intermediate representation (IR)(eg, LLVM) sometimes
complemented with vaguely defined IR-like data structures. This IR is commonly low-level …