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Parallel Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) Using Global Arrays
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  • William Perkins,
  • Zhuoran Duan,
  • Ning Sun,
  • Mark Wigmosta,
  • Marshall Richmond,
  • Xiaodong Chen,
  • L. Ruby Leung
William Perkins
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Zhuoran Duan
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Ning Sun
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Mark Wigmosta
University of Washington,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Washington,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Marshall Richmond
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Xiaodong Chen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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L. Ruby Leung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Abstract

The Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) code was parallelized for distributed memory computers using the Global Arrays (GA) programming model. To analyze parallel performance, DHSVM was used to simulate the hydrology in two river basins of significant size located in the northwest continental United States and southwest Canada at 90~m resolution: the (1) Clearwater (25,000~km) and (2) Columbia (668,000~km) River basins. Meteorological forcing applied to both basins was dynamically down-scaled from a regional reanalysis using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and read into DHSVM as 2D maps for each time step. Parallel code speedup was significant. Run times for 1-year simulations were reduced by an order of magnitude for both test basins. A maximum parallel speedup of 105 was attained with 480 processors while simulating the Columbia River basin. Speedup was limited by input-dominated tasks, particularly the input of meteorological forcing data.
Dec 2019Published in Environmental Modelling & Software volume 122 on pages 104533. 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104533