The SEA code (F77) is used to model ocean circulation by solving the primitive equations of motion. The serial code was provided by D. Stevens from the University of East Anglia (UK).

Code information: 7300 lines of source and 26 subroutines

Total Parallelization Time using ParaWise : Approximately 3 hours.

User Time & Optimization : Approximately 2 hours.

  Results

Sun Fire E25K

       

The results show the performance of a ParaWise generated message passing code on a Sun Fire E25K machine using UltraSparc IV 1.05 GHz processors (RWTH Aachen University).

         Compaq Alpha
         SGI Origin 2000

The results show the performance of a ParaWise generated message passing code on a Compaq Alpha and on an SGI Origin 2000 (NASA Ames).