A Parallel Simulation Framework for Integrated Regional Ecosytem Modeling

This paper presents a general framework to utilize high performance computations in regional ecosystem simulation. First, a comprehensive modeling package is introduced to demonstrate the challenges encountered due to the multiple spatial and temporal scales which arise in regional ecosystem modeling. Second, a parallel simulation framework is presented to support multi-component ecosystem modeling on high performance computational platforms. Third, two ecological models are summarized and presented as an example of model integration in the simulation framework. This work presents the first component-based integrated regional ecosystem simulation for natural resource management on high performance computational platforms.