Paper Info
Title
Earth Simulation Project in Japan - Seeking a Guide Line for the Symbiosis between the Earth and Human Beings - Visualizing an Aspect of the Future of the Earth by a Supercomputer
Abstract
The Science and Technology Agency of Japan has proposed a project to promote studies for global change prediction by an integrated three-in-one research and development approach: earth observation, basic research, and computer simulation. As part of the project, we are developing an ultra-fast computer, the "Earth Simulator", with a sustained speed of more than 5 TFLOPS for an atmospheric circulation code. The "Earth Simulator" is a MIMD type distributed memory parallel system in which 640 processor nodes are connected via fast single-stage crossbar network. Earth node consists of 8 vector-type arithmetic processors which are tightly connected via shared memory. The peak performance of the total system is 40 TFLOPS. As part of the development of basic software system, we are developing an operation supporting software system what is called a "center routine". The total system will be completed in the spring of 2002.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
ISHPC
software system,memory parallel system,basic research,earth simulator,human beings,earth simulation project,earth observation,total system,earth node,basic software system,computer simulation,guide line,development approach
Field
DocType
Volume
Supercomputer,Shared memory,Computer science,Parallel computing,Distributed memory,Software system,Earth observation,Basic research,Crossbar switch,Operating system,Distributed computing,MIMD
Conference
1940
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-41128-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keiji Tani176.19