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Scientific Software and Test Driven Development [06/05/2012]

06.05.2012
While test driven development (TDD) is gaining wide acceptance in many professional software communities, numerical algorithms present several unique challenges that have cast some doubt on the relevance of the methodology to the development of scientific software. Such concerns range from the need for reliable error estimates for roundoff and truncation errors to the general lack of known analytic solutions for codes designed for fundamental research. Fortunately, approaches can be found that minimize and/or circumvent these issues.

Presented by: Dr. Tom Clune
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Climate in a Box to Support NASA Earth System Science [12/17/2009]

12.17.2009
Dr. Tsengdar Lee, NASA Headquarters, introduced the new NASA Climate in a Box initiative with an overview presentation at the 2009 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting.
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Accelerating Climate Models with the IBM Cell Processor [12/16/2008]

12.16.2008
Ever increasing model resolutions and physical processes in climate models demand continual computing power increases. The IBM Cell processor's order-of- magnitude peak performance increase over conventional processors makes it very attractive for fulfilling this requirement. However, the Cell's characteristics: 256KB local memory per SPE and the new low-level communication mechanism, make it very challenging to port an application. We selected the solar radiation component of the NASA GEOS-5 climate model, which: (1) is representative of column physics components (~50% total computation time), (2) has a high computational load relative to data traffic to/from main memory, and (3) performs independent calculations across multiple columns. We converted the baseline code (single-precision, Fortran code) to C and ported it to an IBM BladeCenter QS20, manually SIMDizing 4 independent columns, and found that a Cell with 8 SPEs can process more than 3000 columns per second. Compared with the baseline results, the Cell is ~6.76x, ~8.91x, ~9.85x faster than a core on Intel's Xeon Woodcrest, Dempsey, and Itanium2 respectively. Our analysis shows that the Cell could also speed up the dynamics component (~25% total computation time). We believe this dramatic performance improvement makes the Cell processor very competitive, at least as an accelerator. We will report our experience in porting both the C and Fortran codes and will discuss our work in porting other climate model components.
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Quantifying Sensor Web Capabilities Through Simulation: Recent Results [06/24/2008]

06.24.2008
Discusses progress toward the construction of a "sensor web simulator" (SWS) as applied to a future wind lidar mission and will present preliminary results. The motivation for the simulator is to provide the community a tool that would quantify the scientific return of a meteorological application in which a numerical forecast model intelligently drives data collection.
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