A GPU-accelerated simulation of rapid intensification of a tropical cyclone with observed heating

Soonpil Kang, Francis X. Giraldo, Seth Camp, Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Santa Clara

The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Published online on July 01, 2026

Abstract

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This paper presents a limited-area atmospheric simulation of a tropical cyclone accelerated using GPUs. The OpenACC directive-based programming model is used to port the atmospheric model to the GPU. The GPU implementation of the main functions and ...