INRA Case Study: Wind over Vegetation
EPHYSE in INRA Bordeaux uses complex atmospheric models in order to simulate wind flow at vegetation scale for environmental applications
Institute National Research Agronomy (INRA) is a French government-owned laboratory service. INRA’s Functional Ecology and Environmental Physics unit (EPHYSE) carries out research that relies on wind flow modeling for environmental applications such as tree vulnerability to wind load or pollen dispersal. To achieve its research aims EPHYSE modified the Advanced Regional Prediction System* (ARPS*), developed by the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma, to take account of vegetation canopies and to simulate instantaneous wind flow at the vegetation scale. To improve the computational time of this model and so increase the resolution or domain size, EPHYSE implemented eight Dell PowerEdge* M610 blade servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.
Challenges
• Wind turbulence over heterogeneous landscape.
EPHYSE wanted to improve the computational time of its wind flow models over complex vegetation and terrain landscape
Solutions
• Testing.
Benchmarked Dell PowerEdge* M610 blade servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series against its existing server cluster
• The future. Also tested Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series to evaluate future potential
Impact
• Performance leap.
The server cluster powered by Intel Xeon processor 5500series revealed that the time required to run a typical weather simulation fell from 60 hours to 10 hours
• Energy savings.
Power required for Dell PowerEdge M610 blade server cluster powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series was 2,210 watts compared to 8,500 watts for previous server cluster
• Looking ahead.
Intel Xeon processor 5600 series also delivers 20 per cent more performance with the same power consumption on the same Dell* platform
Read the full INRA Wind over Vegetation Case Study.
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INRA Case Study: Wind over Vegetation
EPHYSE in INRA Bordeaux uses complex atmospheric models in order to simulate wind flow at vegetation scale for environmental applications
Institute National Research Agronomy (INRA) is a French government-owned laboratory service. INRA’s Functional Ecology and Environmental Physics unit (EPHYSE) carries out research that relies on wind flow modeling for environmental applications such as tree vulnerability to wind load or pollen dispersal. To achieve its research aims EPHYSE modified the Advanced Regional Prediction System* (ARPS*), developed by the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma, to take account of vegetation canopies and to simulate instantaneous wind flow at the vegetation scale. To improve the computational time of this model and so increase the resolution or domain size, EPHYSE implemented eight Dell PowerEdge* M610 blade servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.
Challenges
• Wind turbulence over heterogeneous landscape.
EPHYSE wanted to improve the computational time of its wind flow models over complex vegetation and terrain landscape
Solutions
• Testing.
Benchmarked Dell PowerEdge* M610 blade servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series against its existing server cluster
• The future. Also tested Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series to evaluate future potential
Impact
• Performance leap.
The server cluster powered by Intel Xeon processor 5500series revealed that the time required to run a typical weather simulation fell from 60 hours to 10 hours
• Energy savings.
Power required for Dell PowerEdge M610 blade server cluster powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series was 2,210 watts compared to 8,500 watts for previous server cluster
• Looking ahead.
Intel Xeon processor 5600 series also delivers 20 per cent more performance with the same power consumption on the same Dell* platform
Read the full INRA Wind over Vegetation Case Study.
