The case for a single-chip multiprocessor
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
OpenMP: An Industry-Standard API for Shared-Memory Programming
IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era
Computer
Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities
AFIPS '67 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference
Environmental Modelling & Software
Assessment of GPU computational enhancement to a 2D flood model
Environmental Modelling & Software
Environmental Modelling & Software
Parallelization of a hydrological model using the message passing interface
Environmental Modelling & Software
Review: A critical review of integrated urban water modelling - Urban drainage and beyond
Environmental Modelling & Software
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The hydrodynamic rainfall-runoff and urban drainage simulation model SWMM (Storm Water Management Model) is a state of the art software tool applied likewise in research and practice. In order to reduce the computational burden of long simulation runs and to use the extra power of modern multi-core computers, a parallel version of SWMM is presented herein. The challenge has been to modify the software in such minimal way that the resulting code enhancement may find its way into the commercial and non-commercial software tools that depend on SWMM for its calculation engine. A pragmatic approach to identify and enhance only the critical parts of the software in terms of run-time was chosen in order to keep the code changes as low as possible. The enhanced software was first tested for coherence against the original code and then benchmarked on four different input scenarios ranging from a very small village to a medium sized urban area. For the investigated sewer systems a speedup of six to ten times on a twelve core system was realized, thus decreasing the execution time to an acceptable level even for tedious system analysis.