171.swim
SPEC CPU2000 Benchmark Description File

Benchmark Name

171.swim


Benchmark Author

PAUL N. SWARZTRAUBER


Benchmark Program General Category

Weather


Benchmark Description

BENCHMARK WEATHER PREDICTION PROGRAM FOR COMPARING THE PREFORMANCE OF CURRENT SUPERCOMPUTERS. THE MODEL IS BASED ON THE PAPER - THE DYNAMICS OF FINITE-DIFFERENCE MODELS OF THE SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS, BY ROBERT SADOURNY J. ATM. SCIENCES, VOL 32, NO 4, APRIL 1975.


Input Description

It does a 1335x1335 area array of data and iterates over 512 timesteps.


Output Description

It prints the diagonal elements of the velocity field.


Programming Language

F77


Known portability issues

None.


Reference

THE DYNAMICS OF FINITE-DIFFERENCE MODELS OF THE SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS, BY ROBERT SADOURNY J. ATM. SCIENCES, VOL 32, NO 4, APRIL 1975.

and

G.-R. Hoffmann, P. N. Swarztrauber, and R. A. Sweet, Aspects of using multiprocessors for meteorological modeling, In: Multiprocessing in Meteorological Models, G.-R. Hoffman and D.F. Snelling, eds., Springer-Verlag, 1988, pp. 125-196.


Last updated: 14 December 1999