Title
A new flexible coupler for earth system modeling developed for CCSM4 and CESM1
Abstract
The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) has been developed over the last decade, and it is used to understand past, present, and future climates. The latest versions of the model, CCSM4 and CESM1, contain totally new coupling capabilities in the CPL7 coupler that permit additional flexibility and extensibility to address the challenges involved in earth system modeling. The CPL7 coupling architecture takes a completely new approach with respect to the high-level design of the system. CCSM4 now contains a top-level driver that calls model component initialize, run, and finalize methods through specified interfaces. The top-level driver allows the model components to be placed on relatively arbitrary hardware processor layouts and run sequentially, concurrently, or mixed. Improvements have been made to the memory and performance scaling of the coupler to support much higher resolution configurations. CCSM4 scales better to higher processor counts, and has the ability to handle global resolutions up to one-tenth of a degree.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1177/1094342011428141
IJHPCA
Keywords
Field
DocType
new flexible coupler,model component,model component initialize,earth system modeling,top-level driver,ccsm4 scale,arbitrary hardware processor layout,cpl7 coupling architecture,higher resolution configuration,higher processor count,cpl7 coupler,community climate system model,system modeling
Architecture,Coupling,Computer science,Parallel computing,Community Climate System Model,Earth system modeling,Scaling,Extensibility,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
1
1094-3420
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.43
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anthony P. Craig1746.10
Mariana Vertenstein2847.17
Robert Jacob3705.64