Suarez

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Suarez
GFDL
MIT
GEMS
FMS
Wrapper
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Suarez
GFDL
MIT
CSM
NCEP
Framework
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• Should target diverse range of applications
• e.g. Grid-point/Spectral AGCMs, OGCMs, etc
• Should target diverse range of platforms
• e.g. tera-scale MPP, clusters, desk-tops, etc

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NASA CAN outline

• Admin
• Applications
• Multiple applications (Different groups/models)
• Framework
• 4 (somewhat) independent threads
• 1 integration thread

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Threads within Framework

• Fine grain parallelism
• Tiling/PFFT
• Coarse grain parallelism
• Coupling
• I/O
• data formats/sharing
• Ease of use (GUI toolkits)
• Integration
• Algorithms?
• Linking first 4 threads