Application of Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) accelerators to the Pleim-Xiu land surface scheme

Melin Huang; Bormin Huang; Allen H.-L. Huang

doi:10.1117/12.2196555

20 October 2015 Application of Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) accelerators to the Pleim-Xiu land surface scheme

Melin Huang, Bormin Huang, Allen H.-L. Huang

Proceedings Volume 9646, High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing V; 96460F (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196555
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2015, Toulouse, France

Abstract

The land-surface model (LSM) is one physics process in the weather research and forecast (WRF) model. The LSM includes atmospheric information from the surface layer scheme, radiative forcing from the radiation scheme, and precipitation forcing from the microphysics and convective schemes, together with internal information on the land’s state variables and land-surface properties. The LSM is to provide heat and moisture fluxes over land points and sea-ice points. The Pleim-Xiu (PX) scheme is one LSM. The PX LSM features three pathways for moisture fluxes: evapotranspiration, soil evaporation, and evaporation from wet canopies. To accelerate the computation process of this scheme, we employ Intel Xeon Phi Many Integrated Core (MIC) Architecture as it is a multiprocessor computer structure with merits of efficient parallelization and vectorization essentials. Our results show that the MIC-based optimization of this scheme running on Xeon Phi coprocessor 7120P improves the performance by 2.3x and 11.7x as compared to the original code respectively running on one CPU socket (eight cores) and on one CPU core with Intel Xeon E5-2670.

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Melin Huang, Bormin Huang, and Allen H.-L. Huang "Application of Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) accelerators to the Pleim-Xiu land surface scheme", Proc. SPIE 9646, High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing V, 96460F (20 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196555

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