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WRF is a well-known weather code with a hybrid OpenMP and MPI implementation. This paper investigates the performance of WRF on heterogeneous hardware consisting of Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel MIC Architecture co-processors, using offload, OpenMP, and MPI.
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Meadows, L. (2012). Experiments with WRF on Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel MIC) Architecture. In: Chapman, B.M., Massaioli, F., Müller, M.S., Rorro, M. (eds) OpenMP in a Heterogeneous World. IWOMP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30961-8_10
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