Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-77-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-77-2016
Development and technical paper
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18 Jan 2016
Development and technical paper |  | 18 Jan 2016

Towards convection-resolving, global atmospheric simulations with the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) v3.1: an extreme scaling experiment

D. Heinzeller, M. G. Duda, and H. Kunstmann

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (17 Dec 2015) by Julia Hargreaves
AR by Dom Heinzeller on behalf of the Authors (17 Dec 2015)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (18 Dec 2015) by Julia Hargreaves
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Short summary
We present an in-depth evaluation of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) with regards to technical aspects of performing model runs and scalability for medium-size meshes on several HPCs. We also demonstrate the model performance in terms of its capability to reproduce the dynamics of the West African monsoon and its associated precipitation in a pilot study. Finally, we conduct extreme scaling tests on a global 3km mesh with 65,536,002 horizontal grid cells on up to 458,752 cores.