NEMO Best Practices for Intel® Cluster Ready.

Abstract

NEMO (Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean) is a state-of-the-art modeling framework for oceanographic research and operational oceanography. The core of the system is a primitive equation model applied to both regional and global ocean circulation. It is intended to be a flexible tool for studying the ocean, the sea-ice and its interactions with the others components of the earth climate system (atmosphere, land-surfaces, vegetation). NEMO is written in Fortran 90 and is parallelized with a domain decomposition using MPI library. All outputs are done with NetCDF library. This benchmark has been built to test the performances of the OPA OGCM component (released 9.0) on various HPC platforms. It is part of DEISA benchmark suite.