Guide to GEOS-Chem performance

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Overview

In this guide, we provide information about GEOS-Chem performance, as well as information about how to profile GEOS-Chem.

Contents

1. Parallelizing GEOS-Chem
2. GEOS-Chem scalability
3. GEOS-Chem 7-day timing tests
4. GEOS-Chem 1-month benchmark timing results
5. Profiling GEOS-Chem with the TAU performance system
6. Speeding up GEOS-Chem

Further reading

1. What is Amdahl's law (Techopedia)
2. Scalability: Strong scaling and weak scaling (PDC blog)
3. Measuring parallel scaling performance (Sharcnet)
4. Fundamentals of performance profiling (Smartbear)