Abstract
In this paper, we develop a novel Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based high-performance Radiative Transfer Model (RTM) for the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) launched in 2006 onboard the first European meteorological polar-orbiting satellites, METOP-A. The proposed GPU RTM processes more than one profile at a time in order to gain a significant speedup compared to the case of processing just one profile at a time. The radiative transfer model performance in operational numerical weather prediction systems nowadays still limits the number of channels they can use in hyperspectral sounders to only a few hundreds. To take the full advantage of such high resolution infrared observations, a computationally efficient radiative transfer model is needed. Our GPU-based IASI radiative transfer model is developed to run on a low-cost personal supercomputer with 4 NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPUs with total 960 cores, delivering near 4 TFlops theoretical peak performance. The model exhibited linear scaling with the number of graphics processing units. Computing 10 IASI radiance spectra simultaneously on a GPU, we reached 763x speedup for 1 GPU and 3024x speedup for all 4 GPUs, both with respect to the original single-threaded Fortran CPU code. The significant 3024x speedup means that the proposed GPU-based high-performance forward model is able to compute one day's amount of 1,296,000 IASI spectra within 6 minutes, whereas the original CPU-based version will impractically take more than 10 days. The GPU-based high-performance IASI radiative transfer model is suitable for the assimilation of the IASI radiance observations into the operational numerical weather forecast model.
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