CSAIL Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Personal Supercomputer for Climate Research James C. Hoe, Chris Hill In proceedings of SuperComputing'99, Portland, Oregon 1999, August Computation Structures Group Memo 425 The Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 A Personal Sup ercomputer for Climate Research Computation Structures Group Memo 425 August 24, 1999 James C. Ho e Lab for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 jho
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[email protected] To app ear in Pro ceedings of SC'99 This work was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and NOAA and with funds from the MIT Climate Mo deling Initiative[23]. The hardware development was carried out at the Lab oratory for Computer Science, MIT and was funded in part by the Advanced Research Pro jects Agency of the Department of Defense under the Oce of Naval Research contract N00014-92-J- 1310 and Ft. Huachuca contract DABT63-95-C-0150. James C. Ho e is supp orted byanIntel Foundation Graduate Fellowship. The computational resources for this work were made available through generous donations from Intel Corp oration. We acknowledge Arvind and John Marshall for their continuing supp ort. We thank Andy Boughton and Larry Rudolph for their invaluable technical input. A Personal Sup ercomputer for Climate Research James C. Ho e Chris Hill, Alistair Adcroft Lab for Computer Science Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 Cambridge, MA 02139 jho
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[email protected] August 24, 1999 Abstract We describ e and analyze the p erformance of a cluster of p ersonal computers dedicated to coupled climate simulations.