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author Klocke, Daniel
Frauen, Claudia
Engels, Jan Frederik
Alexeev, Dmitry
Redler, René
Schnur, Reiner
Haak, Helmuth
Kornblueh, Luis
Brüggemann, Nils
Chegini, Fatemeh
Römmer, Manoel
Hoffmann, Lars
Griessbach, Sabine
Bode, Mathis
Coles, Jonathan
Gila, Miguel
Sawyer, William
Calotoiu, Alexandru
Budanaz, Yakup
Mazumder, Pratyai
Copik, Marcin
Weber, Benjamin
Herten, Andreas
Bockelmann, Hendryk
Hoefler, Torsten
Hohenegger, Cathy
Stevens, Bjorn
author_facet Klocke, Daniel
Frauen, Claudia
Engels, Jan Frederik
Alexeev, Dmitry
Redler, René
Schnur, Reiner
Haak, Helmuth
Kornblueh, Luis
Brüggemann, Nils
Chegini, Fatemeh
Römmer, Manoel
Hoffmann, Lars
Griessbach, Sabine
Bode, Mathis
Coles, Jonathan
Gila, Miguel
Sawyer, William
Calotoiu, Alexandru
Budanaz, Yakup
Mazumder, Pratyai
Copik, Marcin
Weber, Benjamin
Herten, Andreas
Bockelmann, Hendryk
Hoefler, Torsten
Hohenegger, Cathy
Stevens, Bjorn
contents We present the first-ever global simulation of the full Earth system at 1.25 km grid spacing, achieving highest time compression with an unseen number of degrees of freedom. Our model captures the flow of energy, water, and carbon through key components of the Earth system: atmosphere, ocean, and land. To achieve this landmark simulation, we harness the power of 8192 GPUs on Alps and 20480 GPUs on JUPITER, two of the world's largest GH200 superchip installations. We use both the Grace CPUs and Hopper GPUs by carefully balancing Earth's components in a heterogeneous setup and optimizing acceleration techniques available in ICON's codebase. We show how separation of concerns can reduce the code complexity by half while increasing performance and portability. Our achieved time compression of 145.7 simulated days per day enables long studies including full interactions in the Earth system and even outperforms earlier atmosphere-only simulations at a similar resolution.
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spellingShingle Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution
Klocke, Daniel
Frauen, Claudia
Engels, Jan Frederik
Alexeev, Dmitry
Redler, René
Schnur, Reiner
Haak, Helmuth
Kornblueh, Luis
Brüggemann, Nils
Chegini, Fatemeh
Römmer, Manoel
Hoffmann, Lars
Griessbach, Sabine
Bode, Mathis
Coles, Jonathan
Gila, Miguel
Sawyer, William
Calotoiu, Alexandru
Budanaz, Yakup
Mazumder, Pratyai
Copik, Marcin
Weber, Benjamin
Herten, Andreas
Bockelmann, Hendryk
Hoefler, Torsten
Hohenegger, Cathy
Stevens, Bjorn
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
We present the first-ever global simulation of the full Earth system at 1.25 km grid spacing, achieving highest time compression with an unseen number of degrees of freedom. Our model captures the flow of energy, water, and carbon through key components of the Earth system: atmosphere, ocean, and land. To achieve this landmark simulation, we harness the power of 8192 GPUs on Alps and 20480 GPUs on JUPITER, two of the world's largest GH200 superchip installations. We use both the Grace CPUs and Hopper GPUs by carefully balancing Earth's components in a heterogeneous setup and optimizing acceleration techniques available in ICON's codebase. We show how separation of concerns can reduce the code complexity by half while increasing performance and portability. Our achieved time compression of 145.7 simulated days per day enables long studies including full interactions in the Earth system and even outperforms earlier atmosphere-only simulations at a similar resolution.
title Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution
topic Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02021