Super High Resolution Global Atmospheric Simulation Model (AFES) was ran on Earth Simulator for applications such as high-impact weather systems in East Asia, synoptic
disturbances in winter, the Baiu/Meiyu frontal.

Not just in Asia, but anywhere in the world there are natural disasters that have huge a huge impact on the socio-economic status of a country. For example, Hurricane Katrina was a disaster that took many lives and left the state in a horrifying scene. No one can stop a hurricane, but someone can anticipate it. If predictions on these disasters can be made, countries can prepare for the worst. Therefore using parallel computing technology to compute these predictions are in my opinion is the most important application in the current world.

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Earth Simulation Center located in Yokohama, Japan .Considered the fastest SC in 2002-2004.

640 processor nodes, where each node is a SX-6 super computer

SX-6 was designed by NEC

• Upto 8 vector processors each with 72 vector registers.
• Shares 64GB of memory
• 0.15μ Cu CMOS process as a single chip
• Peak performance of single node is 64 GFLOPS
• Also include a scalar processor
• The OS used is SUPER-UX an Unix like OS

Therefore the 5120 Vector Processors are available.
 11.7GB/s is obtained in inter-node communications.
A whole building is dedicated for this huge machine in Yokohama, Japan.

For this model, FORTRAN 90, micro-tasking and MPI were used to take full advantage of the ES machine. The code for AFES consisted of approximately 30,000 Lines.

AFES was developed to utilize the ES (Earth Simulation) at full potential.  The model has achieved performance of 26.58 Tera-Flops, which is still 64.9% of Max performance of the machine.

The AFES model was used on a run labeled T1279L96. This covers 10km mesh and used all the processors on the ES( 640 nodes, 5120 proc).