WRF > 並列化 > smpar / dmpar > SMPar is for multi-core/multi CPUs, and DMPar is for clusters.

動作環境

Xeon E5-2620 v4 (8コア) x 2
32GB RAM
CentOS 6.8 (64bit)

WRF(Weather Research and Forecasting Model)関連。

並列化時のオプションとしてsmparとdmparというのがあるようだ。
https://wolfscie.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/installing-wrf-on-centos-7/

`3. Build WRF

If we use smpar option, then there is no need to call mpich to run WRF in parallel. Instead, we just need (for real case):
wrf.exe >& log.wrf.txt &

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Things are a little different with dmpar. With this option, we can run wrf.exe by using:
mpirun -np 8 wrf.exe >& log.wrf.txt &

dmparとsmparの違いについては以下のQ7にも記載がある。
http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/FAQ_files/FAQ_wrf_installation.html

SMPar is for multi-core/multi CPUs,
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DMPar means "Distributed-memory Parallelism," which means MPI will be used in the build.

OpenMPについて記載されているが、MPICHだとどうなのかは今後調べる。