Abstract. Increasingly large datasets acquired by NASA for global climate studies demand larger computation memory and higher CPU speed to mine out useful and revealing information. While boosting the CPU frequency is getting harder, clustering multiple lower performance computers thus becomes increasingly popular. This prompts a trend of parallelizing the existing algorithms and methods by mathematicians and computer scientists. In this paper, we take on the task of parallelizing the Nonnegative Tensor Factorization (NTF) method, with the purposes of distributing large datasets into each cluster node and thus reducing the demand on a single node, blocking and localizing the computation at the maximal degree, and finally minimizing the memory use for storing matrices or tensors by exploiting their structural relationships. Numerical experiments were performed on a NASA global sea surface temperature dataset and result factors were analyzed and discussed.

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