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What are the differences between Serial, SMPar, and DMPar compiles of WRF?

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kwerner

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Serial is used for a single CPU, SMPar is for multi-core/multi CPUs, and DMPar is for clusters.

SMPar means "Shared-memory Parallelism." In practice the OpenMP directives are enabled and the resulting binary will only run within a single shared-memory system. This option is not highly tested, however, and is usually not recommended if the option for DMPar is available.

DMPar means "Distributed-memory Parallelism," which means MPI will be used in the build. The resulting binary will run within and across multiple nodes of a distributed-memory system (or cluster).
 
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