Title: Comparative parallel execution of SWAT hydrological model on multicore and grid architectures

Authors: Denisa Rodila; Victor Bacu; Dorian Gorgan

Addresses: Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28, G. Baritiu Str., 400027, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. ' Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28, G. Baritiu Str., 400027, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. ' Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28, G. Baritiu Str., 400027, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract: The paper presents a comparative analysis made on the calibration of a large-scale model, executed both on grid and multicore architectures. The goal is to highlight the advantages brought by the grid infrastructure over the multicore architecture, especially for large-scale applications, which require large amounts of data and a large number of executions. The large-scale application used as a case study for this research work is the calibration of a large-scale SWAT hydrological model, covering the Danube River Basin.

Keywords: grid computing; multicore architectures; comparative analysis; SWAT; hydrological models; model calibration; modelling; grid infrastructure; Danube.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2012.049172

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2012 Vol.8 No.3, pp.304 - 320

Published online: 31 Dec 2014 *

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