Splitting the latitude into smaller domains for shortening runtime

shahla salimpour

shahla salimpour
New Member
Hi all,

I ran my CTSM/CLM case for one simulation year, and the runtime with 120 MPI tasks was about 3 hours and 30 minutes. The case covers the northern domain from 25°N to 90°N.

I was wondering whether it would be reasonable to reduce the runtime by splitting the full 25°N–90°N domain into smaller latitude bands:1779127495007.png and submitting the separate regional cases at the same time.

However, I am not fully sure this is a good solution. As I understand it, I would need to create separate regional cases and prepare separate subsetted input/domain files for each latitude band. This may take some time, and the outputs will be split into separate files rather than a single complete file for the full domain.

Could you please advise whether this latitude-band approach is actually recommended ?

thyank you in advance for your guidance.

regards,
shahla
 

fischer

CSEG and Liaisons
Staff member
Hi Shahla,

I'm not that familiar with the CTSM/CLM model so I don't know what kind of communication is going on between the different latitudes. But my feeling is this is just a bunch of extra work when it would be easier to just increase the number of MPI tasks/nodes.

Chris
 
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