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11. Uni-tasking

Uni-tasking refers to executing on one processor as opposed to multi-tasking which is executing on multiple processors. This chapter describes the dataflow used to integrate equations given in Chapter 4 on a single processor. The method allows problems to be solved which would otherwise be intractable due to their large size11.1. The method is extended to multiple processors in Chapter 12.



 

RC Pacanowski and SM Griffies, GFDL, Jan 2000