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Record W2349208576 · doi:10.2495/air070131

A distributed computing solution for CALPUFF

2007· article· en· W2349208576 on OpenAlexaff
Ka Hing Yau, Jesse Van Griensven Thé

Bibliographic record

VenueWIT transactions on ecology and the environment · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Canadian institutionsLakes Environmental (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceComputationMM5Task (project management)IntranetDistributed computingComputational scienceSimulationMeteorologyAlgorithmSystems engineeringEngineeringThe InternetOperating system

Abstract

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This paper demonstrates the skills, knowledge, and resources required for completing a refined MM5-CALPUFF analysis for a regional air quality study.The dispersion over the entire country using five years of MM5 meteorological data necessitates large scale computation.To assess additional computing resources, an intranet system developed by Lakes Environmental has been utilized to take advantage of idle processing cycles of all personal computers available in an organization.The distributed computing solution requires the modelling task be divided into a series of monthly calculations for each source.As partial results from participating computers are returned, they are summed to yield the final total impact in post processing.Further reduction of computational effort is achieved through application of advanced modelling techniques.Since nonlinearity of the model is insignificant for emissions involving only sulphur dioxide, as it is the case for our project, the final solution can be scaled linearly with respect to the source strength.Grouping of identical sources may also reduce some of the computation, although it is not utilized for the project.By application of innovative distributed computing solution and advanced modelling techniques, we have reduced the project life to one month, instead of one year if it were executed in a straightforward manner.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.067

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.186
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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