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http://dx.doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2017.19.3.153

Speed-up Techniques for High-Resolution Grid Data Processing in the Early Warning System for Agrometeorological Disaster  

Park, J.H. (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.)
Shin, Y.S. (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.)
Kim, S.K. (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.)
Kang, W.S. (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.)
Han, Y.K. (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.)
Kim, J.H. (National Center for Agro-Meteorology, Seoul National University)
Kim, D.J. (National Center for Agro-Meteorology, Seoul National University)
Kim, S.O. (National Center for Agro-Meteorology, Seoul National University)
Shim, K.M. (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA)
Park, E.W. (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
Publication Information
Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.19, no.3, 2017 , pp. 153-163 More about this Journal
Abstract
The objective of this study is to enhance the model's speed of estimating weather variables (e.g., minimum/maximum temperature, sunshine hour, PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regression on Independent Slopes Model) based precipitation), which are applied to the Agrometeorological Early Warning System (http://www.agmet.kr). The current process of weather estimation is operated on high-performance multi-core CPUs that have 8 physical cores and 16 logical threads. Nonetheless, the server is not even dedicated to the handling of a single county, indicating that very high overhead is involved in calculating the 10 counties of the Seomjin River Basin. In order to reduce such overhead, several cache and parallelization techniques were used to measure the performance and to check the applicability. Results are as follows: (1) for simple calculations such as Growing Degree Days accumulation, the time required for Input and Output (I/O) is significantly greater than that for calculation, suggesting the need of a technique which reduces disk I/O bottlenecks; (2) when there are many I/O, it is advantageous to distribute them on several servers. However, each server must have a cache for input data so that it does not compete for the same resource; and (3) GPU-based parallel processing method is most suitable for models such as PRISM with large computation loads.
Keywords
Agrometeorological early warning service; GPU PRISM; Speed-up raster calculation;
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