A Portable Parallel Implementation of the U.S. Navy Layered Ocean Model

Abstract

FORTRAN was designed to run efficiently on primitive serial computers (it had to compete at birth head to head with machine assembly code) and its widespread use influenced the development of the most advanced machines used for numerical calculations in the 60's, 70's and 80's (c.f. CDC 64000, 6600, 7600 CRAY etc.). However, soon the performance limits achievable by a single serial processor economically became a limit to the monotonic growth of computer performance and alternative approaches (most typically dedicated multiprocessor configurations) have been offered as ways to Surmount these constraints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA350699

Entities

People

  • A. J. Wallcraft
  • D. R. Moore

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Central Processing Units
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Department Of Defense
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Mathematics
  • Multiprocessors
  • Ocean Basins
  • Parallel Computing
  • Serial Processors
  • Two Dimensional
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Economics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.