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Personal Supercomputers for Climate Research |
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The Hyades Cluster is part
of a collaborative project beteween researchers from MIT's Department of
Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and
researchers in the Laboratory
for Computer Science (LCS) at MIT. The project is focussed on developing responsive
and spontaneous facilities, close to the desktops of individual researchers,
for use in a wide range of climate research simulations. At present the
cluster consists of sixteen dual processor PII-Xeon computers that were
donated to MIT by Intel as part of the
Technology for Education 2000 Program.
The nodes in the cluster are connected together by an aggressively designed,
high-performance network that was developed as part of the
StarT
project at MIT. The numerical simulations employ the
MIT General Circulation Model to
undertake research in support of the EAPS
Climate Modeling Initiative.
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A Personal Supercomputer for Climate Research,
James C. Hoe, Chris Hill and Alistair Adcroft, Submitted to SC'99.
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A Strategy for Terascale Climate Modeling,
Chris Hill, Alistair Adcroft, Daniel Jamous and John Marshall,
Proceedings of the Eigth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel
Processors in Meteorology - 1999.
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MPI-StarT: Delivering Network Performance to Numerical Applications,
Parry Husbands and James C. Hoe,
Proceedinds of SC'98, Orlando, Florida, November 1998.
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StarT-X: A One-Man-Year Exercise in Network Interface Engineering,
James C. Hoe, Proceedings of Hot Interconnects VI, Stanford, California, August 1998. (10 pages)
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Arctic Switch Fabric, George A. Boughton, Proceedings of the 1997 Parallel Computing, Routing, and Communication Workshop, Atlanta, GA, June 1997
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Arctic Routing Chip,
George A. Boughton, Proceedings of the 1994 University of Washington Parallel Computer Routing and Communication Workshop, May, 1994.
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Supercomputing@Home . Hyades overview poster.
Versatile Modeling Strategy. Numerical modeling strategy presentation.
Arctic-Intel Supercomputer Clusters. Presentation outlining high-performance computing cluster collaborations with Intel.
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Ocean circulation - figure showing surface currents from a climatological numerical simulation performed on the cluster. |
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Key Technologies - key elements of the cluster. |
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Performance I - statistics giving the performance of the ocean model running on sixteen processors. |
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Network Architecture - schematic showing the design of the Arctic network. |
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Atmospheric flow - figure showing zonal windspeed from a climatological numerical simulation performed on the cluster. |
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Wrapper Architecture - schematic showing parallel processing software architecture. |
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Performance II - statistics giving the performance of the atmospheric model running on sixteen processors. |
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Model Architecture - schematic showing key facets of the numerical model. |
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Arctic Switch - the Arctic network. |
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Start-X Card - PCI interface card for the network. |
