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Ocean Mo delling on the Meiko CS MAshworth Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum DKRZ Bundesstrae D Hamburg Germany ashworthdkrzde th March Abstract The HOPE primitive equation general circulation o cean mo del has b een parallelized to run on a range of mo dern high p erformance parallel computers The underlying b oundary exchange communications pro cess has b een isolated in a kernel b enchmark called OCCOMM We present a brief description of the HOPE co de and of the OCCOMM b enchmark and present results from running the mo del on the Meiko CS at CERFA CS as a part of the GPMIMD pro ject in comparison with a numb er of other parallel systems Intro duction The HOPE o cean mo del was develop ed by Dr Ernst MaierReimer and coworkers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg Wol and MaierReimer and has b een made available for use by a wide range of users at the DKRZ It has b een used for long range climate simulations on a pro cessor Cray C system DKRZ has a commitment to providing high p erformance computing facilities for the German climate research community and through international collab orations to researchers across the world As a part of this commitment work is in pro gress to evaluate the p erformance of climate mo dels on the latest high p erformance parallel systems The parallelization of the HOPE mo del forms a key part of that development strategy We briey describ e the structure and parallelization of the HOPE mo del fol lowed by an intro duction to the OCCOMM b oundary exchange communica