A Short History of the Academic Activities at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research

Prado, A. F. B. A.

doi:10.5028/jatm.v3i1.86

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“…The Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies (CPTEC), from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil, executes various types of atmospheric numerical models daily, producing weather forecast products for Brazil and South America [9]. The INPE/CPTEC delivers meteorological information as raw model outputs or web-based products, derived from these models [10].…”

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Reducing Time Delays in Computing Numerical Weather Models at Regional and Local Levels : A Grid-Based Approach

Almeida¹,

Bauer²

2012

IJGCA

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This paper introduces a grid-based approach to reduce the time to deliver local meteorological forecast information. The computation of local meteorological forecasts relies on the execution of both regional and local scale Numerical Weather Prediction models. Typically, such models require extensive computation on large compute clusters. Moreover, the models are commonly executed sequentially, since local models rely on the output of a regional model. The approach introduced in this paper, modifies the computational dependencies in order to compute the models more in parallel while ensuring that computational results are appropriately synchronized. We evaluate the method in a high performance computing grid using the Brazilian Regional Atmospheric Modelling System (BRAMS). The experimental results show a reduction of up to 71 % in the time to deliver local meteorological information with this approach. The approach is sufficiently general that it can be useful with other large distributed applications.

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confidence: 99%