Supercomputing Conference Hyper for GMAO’s Hyperwall Presentations!
12.1.2016
Four members of the GMAO, Tom Clune, Bill Putman, Ben Auer, and Matt Thompson, attended SC16 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, 13-18 November 2016. Each gave a Hyperwall presentation at the NASA Booth, showcasing GMAO work:
- Tom Clune: Testing Code at Exascale with Only a Workstation
- Bill Putman: Exploring Our Warming World in 5K Ultra HD
- Ben Auer: Global, High-Resolution Chemistry in GEOS-5
- Matt Thompson: Improving the Scalability of the GEOS-5 Earth System Model
Tom Clune discussed tools under development that can simulate a parallel environment that enables testing and debugging a massively parallel program using only a single processor. Bill Putman wowed the audience with beautiful animations from runs that have been pushing the envelope of GEOS-5, such as the 1.5km run that was performed last summer, as well as giving an overview of other experiments expanding the boundaries of GEOS-5. Ben Auer gave an overview of the GEOS-Chem nature run that was performed by various members of the GMAO, being the first time GEOS-Chem had been run at a 12.5km resolution. This was also NASA’s Our Planet featured demo. Finally, Matt Thompson discussed efforts to improve the scaling of GEOS-5 as the model moves to higher operational resolutions.
