To conduct a large-scale hydrologic-response and landform evolution simulation at high resolution,a complex physics-based numerical model,the Integrated Hydrology Model(InHM),was revised utilizing cluster parallel com...To conduct a large-scale hydrologic-response and landform evolution simulation at high resolution,a complex physics-based numerical model,the Integrated Hydrology Model(InHM),was revised utilizing cluster parallel computing.The parallelized InHM(ParInHM) divides the simulated area into multiple catchments based on geomorphologic features,and generates boundary-value problems for each catchment to construct simulation tasks,which are then dispatched to different computers to start the simulation.Landform evolution is considered during simulating and implemention in one framework.The dynamical Longest-Processing-Time(LPT) first scheduling algorithm is applied to job management.In addition,a pause-integratedivide-resume routine method is used to ensure the hydrologic validity during the simulation period.The routine repeats until the entire simulation period is finished.ParInHM has been tested in a computer cluster that uses 16 processors for the calculation,to simulate 100 years' hydrologic-response and soil erosion for the 117-km2 Kaho'olawe Island in the Hawaiian Islands under two different mesh resolutions.The efficiency of ParInHM was evaluated by comparing the performance of the cluster system utilizing different numbers of processors,as well as the performance of non-parallelized system without domain decomposition.The results of this study show that it is feasible to conduct a regional-scale hydrologic-response and sediment transport simulation at high resolution without demanding significant computing resources.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China ("973" Program) (Grant No. 2011CB409901-1)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. R5110012)the E-Project of Microsoft Research Asia
文摘To conduct a large-scale hydrologic-response and landform evolution simulation at high resolution,a complex physics-based numerical model,the Integrated Hydrology Model(InHM),was revised utilizing cluster parallel computing.The parallelized InHM(ParInHM) divides the simulated area into multiple catchments based on geomorphologic features,and generates boundary-value problems for each catchment to construct simulation tasks,which are then dispatched to different computers to start the simulation.Landform evolution is considered during simulating and implemention in one framework.The dynamical Longest-Processing-Time(LPT) first scheduling algorithm is applied to job management.In addition,a pause-integratedivide-resume routine method is used to ensure the hydrologic validity during the simulation period.The routine repeats until the entire simulation period is finished.ParInHM has been tested in a computer cluster that uses 16 processors for the calculation,to simulate 100 years' hydrologic-response and soil erosion for the 117-km2 Kaho'olawe Island in the Hawaiian Islands under two different mesh resolutions.The efficiency of ParInHM was evaluated by comparing the performance of the cluster system utilizing different numbers of processors,as well as the performance of non-parallelized system without domain decomposition.The results of this study show that it is feasible to conduct a regional-scale hydrologic-response and sediment transport simulation at high resolution without demanding significant computing resources.
