Performance optimization and load-balancing modeling for superparametrization by 3D les
Gijs Van Den Oord (Netherlands eScience Center)
Maria Chertova (Netherlands eScience Center)
F. Jansson (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
I. Pelupessy (Netherlands eScience Center)
A.P. Siebesma (TU Delft - Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
Daan Crommelin (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
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Abstract
In order to eliminate climate uncertainty w.r.t. cloud and convection parametrizations, superpramaterization (SP) [1] has emerged as one of the possible ways forward. We have implemented (regional) superparametrization of the ECMWF weather model OpenIFS [2] by cloud-resolving, three-dimensional large-eddy simulations. This setup, described in [3], contains a two-way coupling between a global meteorological model that resolves large-scale dynamics, with many local instances of the Dutch Atmospheric Large Eddy Simulation (DALES) [4], resolving cloud and boundary layer physics. The model is currently prohibitively expensive to run over climate or even seasonal time scales, and a global SP requires the allocation of millions of cores. In this paper, we study the performance and scaling behavior of the LES models and the coupling code and present our implemented optimizations. We mimic the observed load imbalance with a simple performance model and present strategies to improve hardware utilization in order to assess the feasibility of a world-covering superparametrization. We conclude that (quasi-)dynamical load-balancing can significantly reduce the runtime for such large-scale systems with wide variability in LES time-stepping speeds.
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