Gerard Cats

Publications

  1. Van Thieu Vu, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, Overlapping Communications With Calculations, in proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2009), CSREA Press, pp. 487-493.
  2. Van Thieu Vu, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, Automatic code generation for Finite Element Methods applied to the Shallow-Water equations, in proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC 2009), CSREA Press, pp. 101-107.
  3. Van Thieu Vu, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, Automatic code generation for Finite Element Methods applied to the Shallow-Water equations, in proceedings of the 15th annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI2009), June 3-5, 2009, Zeewolde, the Netherlands. Published on CD.
  4. Gerard Cats, Numerieke weersverwachtingen. Eureka! Magazine, nr. 21, 2008; available from the archives in http://www.physics.leidenuniv.nl/eureka.
  5. Gerard Cats, 24 More Years of Numerical Weather Prediction: A Model Performance model, KNMI Scientific report WR 2008-1(2008).
  6. Van Thieu Vu, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, Asynchronous Communication in the HIRLAM Weather Forecast Model, 14th Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), 2008 (accepted).
  7. Paul van der Mark, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, A Dynamic Application-Driven Data Communication Strategy, in proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, June 2004, Saint-Malo, France, ACM Press, pp. 146-153.
  8. Paul van der Mark, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Optimizing Data Communication for Semi-Lagrangian Formulations on a Distributed Memory Cluster, in proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), June 2004, Ouddorp, The Netherlands, pp. 381-388.
  9. Paul van der Mark, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Semi-Lagrangian Formulations with Automatic Code Generation for Environmental Modeling, in proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC04), March 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus, ACM Press, pp. 229-234.
  10. Paul van der Mark, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Code Generation for Semi-Lagrangian Formulations, in proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, October 2003, Ljubljana, Slovenia, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 266-273.
  11. Per Undén, Heikki Järvinen, Ernesto Rodríguez and Gerard Cats, HIRLAM-5 Final Report, pp 144, September 2003. Available from the HIRLAM-6 Project, c/o SMHI, S-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden,
  12. Paul van der Mark, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Automatic Code Generation for a Convection Scheme, in proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, special track on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networking, March 2003, Melbourne (Fl), USA, USA, ACM Press, pp. 1003-1008.
  13. Paul van der Mark, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Automatic Code Generation for Large Scale Applications, in proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, January 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 157-164.
  14. Per Undén, Laura Rontu, Heikki Järvinen, Peter Lynch, Javier Calvo, Gerard Cats, Joan Cuxart, Kalle Eerola, Carl Fortelius, Jose Antonio Garcia-Moya, Colin Jones, Geert Lenderlink, Aidan McDonald, Ray McGrath, Beatriz Navascues, Niels Woetman Nielsen, Viel Ødegaard, Ernesto Rodriguez, Markku Rummukainen,Rein Rõõm, Kai Sattler, Bent Hansen Sass, Hannu Savijärvi, Ben Wichers Schreur, Robert Sigg, Han The, Aleksander Tijm, HIRLAM-5 Scientifc Documentation, December 2002, available from the HIRLAM-5 project, c/o Per Undén, SMHI, S-601, 76 Norrköping, Sweden; 144 pp..
  15. Paul van der Mark, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, Automatic Code Generation for a Turbulence Scheme, in proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, June 2001, Sorrento, Italy. (ACM Press, pp. 252-259)
  16. Paul van der Mark, Gerard Cats, and Lex Wolters, Code Generation for a Turbulence Scheme, in proceedings of the ASCI 2001 Conference, May 2001, Heijen, The Netherlands. (pp. 383-390)
  17. Robert van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, The Ctadel Application Driver, chapter 26 in Elias Houstis et al (eds.), Enabling Technologies for Computional Science - Frameworks, Middleware and Environments, Kluwer Academic Publ., ISBN 0792378091, 2000.
  18. Peter Lynch, Nils Gustafsson, Bent Hansen Sass and Gerard Cats, Final Report of the HIRLAM 4 Project, 1997-1999 (chapter 4), pp 59, 2000. Available from the HIRLAM Project, c/o SMHI, S-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden,
  19. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Tomorrow's Weather Forecast: Automatic Code Generation for Atmospheric Modeling, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1997, pp. 22-31.
  20. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, The Ctadel Application Driver for Numerical Weather Forecast Systems, in Achim Sydow (ed.) proceedings of the 15th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, August 1997, Berlin, Germany, Wissenschaft & Technik Verlag, Volume 4, pp. 571-576.
  21. Robert A. van Engelen, Ilja Heitlager, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Incorporating Application Dependent Information in an Automatic Code Generating Environment, in proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, July 1997, Vienna, Austria, ACM Press, pp. 180-187.
  22. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, PDE-Oriented Language Compilation and Optimization with Ctadel for Parallel Computing, in proceedings of the Second International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS'97), April 1997, Geneva, Switzerland, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 105-109.
  23. Gerard Cats and Lex Wolters, The Hirlam Project, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering 4 (1996) 4-7.
  24. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Automatic Code Generating for High Performance Computing in Environmental Modeling, in proceedings of the International Eurosim Conference, June 1996, Delft, The Netherlands pp. 421-428.
  25. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, The Ctadel Code Generation Tool for PDE-based Scientific Applications, in proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI), June 1996, Lommel, Belgium, 120-125.
  26. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Ctadel: A Generator of Multi-Platfom High Performance Codes for PDE-based Scientific Applications, in proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, May 1996, Philadelphia, USA, ACM Press, 86-93.
  27. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Multi-Platform Code Generation for the HIRLAM Dyn Routine with Ctadel, in proceedings of the HIRLAM workshop on Variational Data Assimilation, February 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 115-122.
  28. Victor V. Goldman and Gerard Cats, Automatic Adjoint Modelling within a Program Generation Framework: A Case Study for a Weather Forecasting Grid-Point Model, in "Martin Berz, Christian Bischof, George Corliss, and Andreas Griewank (eds): Computational Differentiation: Techniques, Applications, and Tools", SIAM, Philadelphia, Penn., 1996. (abstract)
  29. Lex Wolters, Robert A. van Engelen, and Gerard Cats, Automatic Code Generation: Ctadel, in proceedings of the 17th EWGLAM and SRNWP meeting, October 1995, Sinaia, Romania. (to appear)
  30. Robert A. van Engelen, Lex Wolters, and Gerard Cats, Ctadel: A Generator of Efficient Code for PDE-based Scientific Applications, Technical Report 95-26, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, September 1995.
  31. Victor V. Goldman and Gerard Cats, Program Generation Techniques for the Development and Maintenance of Numerical Weather Forecast Grid Models, in proceedings of the Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science (PARA95), August 22-24, 1995, Lyngby, Denmark. (Eds: Jack Dongarra, Kai Madsen, and J. Wasniewski), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.1041, Springer Verlag, (1996), 267-277.
  32. Dick Dee and Gerard Cats, Tuning OI covariance parameters: Experiments with the HIRLAM system, In proceedings of the WMO Second International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, Tokyo, 13-17 March 1995, 225-228.
  33. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, Nils Gustafsson, and Tomas Wilhelmsson, Data-Parallel Numerical Methods in a Weather Forecast Model, Applied Numerical Mathematics 19 (1995) 159-171; also Technical Report 94-48, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, December 1994.
  34. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, and Nils Gustafsson, Data-Parallel Numerical Weather Forecasting, Scientific Programming 4 (1995) 141-153, also Technical Report 94-49, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, December 1994.
  35. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, Nils Gustaffson, and Tomas Wilhelmsson, Dataparallel Semi-Lagrangian Numerical Weather Forecasting, in proceedings of Frontiers '95, the Fifth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, February 6-9 1995, McLean, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 164-170; also Technical Report 94-50, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, November 1994.
  36. Lex Wolters, Robert A. van Engelen, Gerard Cats, Nils Gustaffson, and Tomas Wilhelmsson, A Data-Parallel HIRLAM Forecast Model, in proceedings of the Sixth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, Nov 21-25, 1994, Reading, UK, World Scientific, Singapore etc., 49-62; also Technical Report 94-47, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, November 1994.
  37. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, and Nils Gustafsson, Limited Area Numerical Weather Forecasting on a Massively Parallel Computer, in proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, July 11-15 1994, Manchester, England, ACM press, 289-296; also Technical Report 94-16, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, April 1994.
  38. Gerard Cats, Nils Gustafsson, and Lex Wolters, Finite Difference and Spectral Models for Numerical Weather Forecasting on a Massively Parallel Computer, Technical Report 93-07, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, April 1993.
  39. Lex Wolters and Gerard Cats, A Parallel Implementation of the HIRLAM Model, in G.-R. Hoffmann and T. Kauranne (eds.), Parallel Supercomputing in Atmospheric Science, proceedings of the Fifth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, World Scientific Publ., 1993, 486-499; also Technical Report 92-29, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, December 1992.
  40. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, and Harry A.G. Wijshoff, Programming Environments for Atmosphere and Ocean Circulation Simulation on Massively Parallel Computers, in proceedings of the DPRI Symposium, Boston, April 1992.
  41. A.C.M. Stoffelen, and G.J. Cats, The Impact of Seasat-A Scatterometer Data on High-Resolution Analyses and Forecasts: The Development of the QE-II Storm. Monthly Wea. Rev. 119 (1991), 2794-2802.
  42. G.J. Cats, H. Middelkoop, D. Streefland and D. Swierstra, A meteorological model on a transputer network, in G.-R. Hoffmann and D. Maretis (eds.), The Dawn of Massively Parallel Processing in Meteorology. Springer Verlag, Berlin etc., 1990.
  43. A.C.M. Stoffelen, G.J. Cats, L.M. Hafkenscheid and A.P.M. Baede, Impact of SASS wind data on analyses and forecasts of a fine mesh limited area model. BCRS Report 89-38 (80 pages), available from BCRS, PO Box 5023, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. (1989)
  44. P.J.H. Builtjes, G.J. Cats, O. Hov, E. Luken, J. Reiff, D. Simpson and R. Timmes, Calculations and evaluation of the photochemical episode of May 29 - June 2, 1982. PHOXA report no IV. Final report for CEC project, 250 pages. CEC, Rue de la Loi 200, Brussels, 1988.
  45. G.J. Cats, B. De Haan and L.M. Hafkenscheid, Verification of an objective analysis scheme: Meteorological analyses after the Chernobyl disaster verified by trajectories of radioactive air masses. KNMI Scientific report WR 87-4. (1987)
  46. R. Daley, W. Wergen and G.J. Cats, The objective analysis of planetary-scale flow. Monthly Wea. Rev. 114 (1987), 1892-1908.
  47. A. Hollingsworth, A.C. Lorenc, M.S. Tracton, K. Arpe, G.J. Cats, S. Uppala and P. Kållberg, The response of numerical weather prediction systems to FGGE level IIb data. Part 1: Analyses. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc. 111 (1985), 1-66.
  48. J. Reiff, D. Blaauwboer, H.A.R. de Bruin, A.P. van Ulden, and G. Cats, An Air Mass Transformation Model for Short-Range Weather Forecasting. Monthly Wea. Rev. 112 (1984), 393-412.
  49. G. Cats and O. Åkesson, An investigation into a marked difference between two successive ECMWF forecasts. Contributions to Atmospheric Physics 56 (1983), 440-451.
  50. G.J. Cats, Analysis of surface wind and its gradient in a mesoscale wind observation network. Monthly Wea. Rev. 8 (1980), 1100-1107.
  51. G.J. Cats and A.A.M. Holtslag, Prediction of air pollution frequency distribution - Part I: The lognormal model. Atm. Env. 14 (1980), 255-258. Author's reply to a comment to this: Atm.Env. 15, 874-875

Contributions to HIRLAM newsletters

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  1. Haobo Zhou, Gerard Cats and Lex Wolters, Evaluation of the HIRLAM Forecast module on the Grid environment DAS-2, in HIRLAM newsletter 48, June 2005.
  2. Gerard Cats, Reference system status May 2005, in HIRLAM newsletter 48, June 2005.
  3. Lotte Troen, Korneel Cats and Gerard Cats, Optimizing the HIRLAM forecast model at ECMWF, in HIRLAM newsletter 47, March 2005.
  4. Gerard Cats, Reference system status, in HIRLAM newsletter 47, March 2005.
  5. Gerard Cats, A new structure for HIRLAM runs, in HIRLAM newsletter 46, November 2004.
  6. Gerard Cats, Reference system status April 2004, in HIRLAM newsletter 45, May 2004.
  7. Gerard Cats, Reference system status September 2003, in HIRLAM newsletter 44, November 2003.
  8. Gerard Cats, Reference system status, in HIRLAM newsletter 43, June 2003.
  9. Gerard Cats, Workshop on System Collaboration, in HIRLAM newsletter 42, November 2002.
  10. Gerard Cats, Implications of the Workshop on System Collaboration for the HIRLAM redesign, in HIRLAM newsletter 42, November 2002.
  11. Gerard Cats, Per Undén and Kristian Mogensen, Reference system status, in HIRLAM newsletter 42, November 2002.
  12. Gerard Cats, HIRLAM coding styles, in HIRLAM newsletter 41, June 2002.
  13. Gerard Cats, NWP on a GRID compute environment, in HIRLAM newsletter 41, June 2002.
  14. Per Undén and Gerard Cats, Reference system status, in HIRLAM newsletter 40, March 2002.
  15. Per Undén and Gerard Cats, Reference system status, in HIRLAM newsletter 39, October 2001.
  16. Gerard Cats, Reference system status June 2001, in HIRLAM newsletter 38, June 2001.
  17. Gerard Cats, Strategy for Y2K Preparations, in HIRLAM newsletter 32, November 1998.