I considered interesting to measure ASHEE parallel performance, and possible strategies to improve this simulations efficiency. In the following work, I start presenting in Chapter 2, a brief review of the ASHEE model and computational environment, to subsequently introduce, in Chapter 3 the study, that I have made, on its parallel performance. In Chapter 4 I will describe how a parallel Lagrangian library has been integrated in the ASHEE code, to improve the physical description of volcanic eruptions. Therein I compare the performance of this enhanced code to the old one. In the end I will make a short summary on the obtained results, and a brief discussion is presented on the work that still has to be done, to effectively enable this tool for the active monitoring at sites of interest.
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