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A GPU-accelerated simulation of rapid intensification of a tropical cyclone with observed heating

Published: April 10, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.08157v1

By: Soonpil Kang, Francis X. Giraldo, Seth Camp

Potential Business Impact:

Makes storm predictions faster and more accurate.

Business Areas:
GPU Hardware

This paper presents a limited-area atmospheric simulation of a tropical cyclone accelerated using GPUs. The OpenACC directive-based programming model is used to port the atmospheric model to the GPU. The GPU implementation of the main functions and kernels is discussed. The GPU-accelerated code produces high-fidelity simulations of a realistic tropical cyclone forced by observational latent heating. Performance tests show that the GPU-accelerated code yields energy-efficient simulations and scales well in both the strong and weak limit.

Page Count
10 pages

Category
Physics:
Computational Physics