WRF v3.9.1.1 Benchmark Cases

The tar files contain data and scripts for benchmarking purposes:

• a restart file, namelist, and lateral boundary file: sufficient to initialize the model
• a short python script to help you evaluate results
• a short README file with instructions on how to run the test and verify results
• sample PNG files of acceptable differences
• a sample WRF output file for comparison purposes

For the CONUS 12 km (425x300x35), about 900 MBytes

• bench_12km.tar.bz2
• 2001 Oct 24 0900 UTC through 1200 UTC
• on 144 cores, each 72 s dt requires about 0.15 s
• takes about 13 min on a Mac laptop, GNU compiler

 &physics
 mp_physics                          = 4,
 ra_lw_physics                       = 1,
 ra_sw_physics                       = 1,
 radt                                = 30, 
 sf_sfclay_physics                   = 1,
 sf_surface_physics                  = 1,
 bl_pbl_physics                      = 1,
 cu_physics                          = 1,
 /

For the CONUS 2.5 km (1501x1201x35), about 11.5 GBytes

• bench_2.5km.tar.bz2
• 2005 Jun 4 0900 UTC through 1200 UTC
• on 1000 cores, each 15 s dt requires about 0.3 s
• 2500 cores is a reasonable decomposition

 &physics
 mp_physics                          = 4,
 ra_lw_physics                       = 1,
 ra_sw_physics                       = 1,
 radt                                = 10, 
 sf_sfclay_physics                   = 1,
 sf_surface_physics                  = 2,
 bl_pbl_physics                      = 1,
 cu_physics                          = 0,
 /