Skip to Main content Skip to Navigation
Journal articles

Performance benchmarks for a next generation numerical dynamo model

Hiroaki Matsui Eric Heien Julien Aubert 1 Jonathan Aurnou Margaret Avery Ben Brown Bruce Buffett Friedrich Busse Ulrich Christensen Christopher Davies Nicholas Featherstone Thomas Gastine Gary Glatzmaier David Gubbins Jean-Luc Guermond Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi Rainer Hollerbach Lorraine Hwang Andrew Jackson Chris Jones Weiyuan Jiang Louise Kellogg Weijia Kuang Maylis Landeau Philippe Marti Peter Olson Adolfo Ribeiro Youhei Sasaki Nathanaël Schaeffer 2 Radostin Simitev Andrey Sheyko Luis Silva Sabine Stanley Futoshi Takahashi Shin-Ichi Takehiro Johannes Wicht Ashley Willis
1 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
2 Géodynamo
ISTerre - Institut des Sciences de la Terre
Abstract : Numerical simulations of the geodynamo have successfully represented many observable characteristics of the geomagnetic field, yielding insight into the fundamental processes that generate magnetic fields in the Earth's core. Because of limited spatial resolution, however, the diffusivities in numerical dynamo models are much larger than those in the Earth's core, and consequently, questions remain about how realistic these models are. The typical strategy used to address this issue has been to continue to increase the resolution of these quasi-laminar models with increasing computational resources, thus pushing them toward more realistic parameter regimes. We assess which methods are most promising for the next generation of supercomputers, which will offer access to O(10 6) processor cores for large problems. Here we report performance and accuracy benchmarks from 15 dynamo codes that employ a range of numerical and parallelization methods. Computational performance is assessed on the basis of weak and strong scaling behavior up to 16,384 processor cores. Extrapolations of our weak-scaling results indicate that dynamo codes that employ two-dimensional or three-dimensional domain decompositions can perform efficiently on up to $10 6 processor cores, paving the way for more realistic simulations in the next model generation.
Document type :
Journal articles
Complete list of metadata

Cited literature [40 references]  Display  Hide  Download
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01857606
Contributor : Eva Fareau <>
Submitted on : Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 5:05:16 PM
Last modification on : Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 9:40:13 PM
Long-term archiving on: : Saturday, November 17, 2018 - 1:34:01 PM

File

Vignette du document
Matsui_et_al-2016-Geochemistry...
Publisher files allowed on an open archive

Identifiers

Collections

INSU | CNRS | OSUG | IFSTTAR | USPC | IRD | UNIV-SAVOIE | ISTERRE | UNIV-PARIS7 | UNIV-PARIS | AFRIQ | UGA | IPGP

Citation

Hiroaki Matsui, Eric Heien, Julien Aubert, Jonathan Aurnou, Margaret Avery, et al.. Performance benchmarks for a next generation numerical dynamo model. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, AGU and the Geochemical Society, 2016, 17 (5), pp.1586-1607. ⟨10.1002/2015GC006159⟩. ⟨insu-01857606⟩

Export

BibTeX TEI DC DCterms EndNote

Share

Metrics

Record views

723

Files downloads

1130