Comparative parallel execution of SWAT hydrological model on multicore and grid architectures. (24th September 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rodila, Denisa; Bacu, Victor; Gorgan, Dorian
• Is Part Of: International journal of web and grid services. Volume 8:Number 3(2012)
• Page Start: 304
• Page End: 320
• Publication Date: 2012-09-24
• Subjects: grid -- multicore -- comparative analysis -- SWAT -- hydrological models -- calibration; Web services -- Periodicals; Computational grids (Computer systems) -- Periodicals; 006.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-1106

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.