Earth Simulator - An Analysis

This document contains concurrent and parallel computing seminar work at Lappeenranta University of technology; the topic focuses on super computer technologies, specifically Earth Simulator. The Earth Simulator (ES) is a high-speed super computer technology that was started as a research project in 1997 to better understand and predict the climate change and global environment at large. The Earth simulator is a large scale super computer which encompass of 640 processor elements bonded by a single stage full crossbar network.
Every node element contains 8 vector processors, which uses one single shared memory of capacity 16GB. This massive super computer brought about a high scaled performance of 40Tflops and 10TB memory capacity. The goal of the Earth Simulator project is to simulate atmospheric and oceanic phenomena on Earth. There are five research projects, each of which concentrates on a specific area of Earth research.