Ocean Circulation Model
OCEANS
- Uses second-order finite differences with an explicit leapfrog time stepping scheme on a logically rectangular grid.
- A. Wallcraft, H. Hurlburt, R. Rhodes, & J. Shriver, NRL - Stennis
540% speedup over the previous parallel software. (64*145.6 Mflop/s) = 9.3 Gflop/s
Translated into a run that was taking 2 hours is now 25 minutes.
ScaLAPACK has also improved accuracy of results.