From: Matt Beare Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: SEA v3.0 announcement Date: 17 Oct 1998 07:41:57 GMT Organization: University of East Anglia Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <709ho5$9et$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu The Southampton - East Anglia (SEA) parallel ocean circulation model -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Southampton - East Anglia (SEA) model is a three-dimensional finite difference, primitive equation, ocean general circulation model (OGCM), based around the successful Bryan-Semtner-Cox formulation. It is designed to give good performance on high powered workstations, clusters of workstations and message passing massively parallel processing systems, rather than vector processors. Version 3.0 is available now from the WWW, http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/SEA/ Parallelism is implemented as a module option, which can be selected using a single C-lanaguage pre processor compiler directive. The intricate details of parallelism are thus removed from the model, as much as possible, maintaining a familiar (sequential) look-and-feel to the code. The parallel module supports both PVM and MPI environments and is portable over a wide range of computer platforms, both sequential and parallel. Over recent years a gap has emerged between those groups that have access to MPP's (and have the technical expertise to consider parallelism) and those which rely on local workstations to run traditional sequential codes. We believe that the SEA model can help researchers, belonging to the latter group, to bridge this gap, utilising clusters of networked workstations in order to permit larger models to be run over longer timescales than would otherwise be possible, without necessitating knowledge of parallel computing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Beare | Email: M.Beare@uea.ac.uk School of Mathematics | Tel: +44 (0)1603 592990 University of East Anglia | Fax: +44 (0)1603 259515 Norwich NR4 7TJ England | http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h007/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel