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Foil 7 Details of GEMCI - Core Infrastructure I

From Computational Science and HPCC Infrastructure for GEM GEM Group Meeting Boulder Colorado -- March 13-14 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Computational infrastructure involves link of geographically distributed observations and computation
  • Seismic sensors, SAR etc.
  • So hardware supports computation, data storage and access
2 IGNORE Special Purpose Computers (such as GRAPE in Japan) for O(N2) particle dynamics which could for instance be used in Green's function approach to equation solvers.
  • These have 100 times performance of "conventional parallel machines" but maybe there are much larger algorithmic improvements to be gained which require classic parallel computers
3 Assume GEM simulations will use classic mix of computers from PC's, Workstation. PC clusters, up to Origin/SP MPP's
4 Choose software (e.g. Fortran/C+MPI) supporting this range

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