CHAMMP Review

Abstract

CHAMMP (Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics) is a new DOE program designed to move climate models from the current generation of supercomputers to massively parallel computers of the future. The general computing goal of CHAMMP is to provide a ten thousandfold increase in computing speed. Within the current climate modeling community, the primary motivation for increased speed is the desire to achieve much higher geographical resolution in the models, which would allow the regional predictions desired by policy makers. As planning for CHAMMP has evolved, issues other than those of spatial resolution have received increased attention. These issues include predictability, improvement of model performance by use of modern software engineering, the relationship of CHAMMP to other proposed modeling efforts, etc. This report provides an overview of these issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA247401

Entities

People

  • A. Despain
  • C. Leith
  • G. Macdonald
  • G. North
  • H. Abarbanel
  • H. Levine
  • N. Metroplis
  • P. Collela
  • S. Koonin
  • W. Nierenberg

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Computations
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Earth Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • High Level Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Software Development

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • Game Theory.