Lapin, Andrei

2016-9-14, Kropf, Peter, Lapin, Andrei, Carretero, Jesus, Caíno-Lores, Silvina

The field of hydrology usually relies on complex multiphysics systems and data collected from geographically distributed sensors in order to obtain good quality predictions and analysis of how wa- ter moves through the environment. Nowadays, the computational resources needed to run such com- plex simulators, and the increasing size of datasets related to the models have arisen an interest to- wards distributed infrastructures like clouds. This paper presents the results of applying a cloudifica- tion methodology to a legacy hydrological simulator (HydroGeoSphere), wrapped with an ensemble Kal- man filter. This work describes how the methodology was applied, the particularities of its implementation and configuration for the Apache Spark iterative map- reduce platform, and the results of an evaluation in a commodity cluster against an MPI implementation of the simulator.