The Dawn of Massively Parallel Processing in Meteorology

Introduction: The Dawn of Massively Parallel Processing in Meteorology.- An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Meteorology.- A Modestly Parallel Model.- Implementation of Atmospheric Models on Large Multi-Processor Surfaces.- A Meteorological Model on a Transputer Network.- Benefits and Challenges from Parallel Processing: The View from NCAR.- Multitasking on the ETA10.- Multitasking the Meteorological Office Forecast Model on an ETA10.- Multiprocessing of a Mesoscale Model.- Parallel Processing at Cray Research, Inc..- Inherent Parallelism in Numerical Weather Prediction Algorithms.- Report of Application of the Parallel Algorithm in NWP at SMA.- Operating Systems and Strategies for Highly Concurrent Systems.- The SUPRENUM Architecture and Its Application to Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Data Parallel Supercomputing.- Solving the Shallow Water Equations on the Cray X-MP/48 and the Connection Machine 2.- Some Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications on the Intel iPSC/2.- Parallel Implementation of Advection Calculations in Pseudospectral Atmospheric Hydrodynamical Models.- Asymptotic Parallelism of Weather Models.- Meteorological Modelling on the DAP Series of Computers.- Execution of Scientific Algorithms on the Parallel Computer Parawell.- Numerical Solution of the Primitive Equations on the Connection Machine.- A Distributed Memory Implementation of the Shallow Water Equations.- Highly Parallel Architectures in Meteorological Applications (Summary of the Discussion).