PATC: Earth Sciences Simulation Environments

Date: 12/Nov/2019 Time: 10:00 - 14/Nov/2019 Time: 17:30

Place:

The course will take place in Barcelona Supercomputing Center, within the UPC Campus Nord premises.

Vertex Building VS208

 

 

 

Target group: Level: (All courses are designed for specialists with at least 1st cycle degree or similar background experience) INTERMEDIATE: For trainees with at least University degree in progress on Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences or related area.

Cost: There is no registration fee. The attendees would need to cover the expenses for travel, accommodation and meals.

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Objectives

The objective of this PATC course is to cover the basics of a high performance computing (HPC) environment oriented towards earth science applications, specifically chemical weather modelling and climate modelling.

More precisely, the course will cover:

  • Introduction to earth science fundamentals and modelling;
  • Basic usage of an HPC environment: shell, compilers, libraries, file systems, queuing system and parallel computing;
  • Build and configure targeted earth science applications with the NMMB/MONARCH chemical transport model and with the EC-EARTH climate model;
  • Execute and monitor numerical experiments using a workflow manager;
  • Analyse and visualise model outputs with a wide set of tools.

Learning outcomes: Participants will learn and gain experience in accessing an HPC facility, installing earth science numerical models and related utilities and libraries, running numerical simulations, monitoring the execution of supercomputing jobs, analysing and visualising model results.

Requirements

Prerequisites:
At least University degree in progress on Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences or related area

Basic knowledge of UNIX

Knowledge of C, FORTRAN, MPI or openMP is recommended

Knowledge of Earth Sciences data formats is recommended (grib, netcdf, hdf,…)

Knowledge of R and python

Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn and gain experience in accessing an HPC facility, installing earth science numerical models and related utilities and libraries, running numerical simulations, monitoring the execution of supercomputing jobs, analysing and visualising model results.

Academic Staff

Course Conveners: 

Julia Cannata. Project Dissemination Officer, BSC-ES, Earth System Sciences Group
Martí Galí. Research scientist, BSC-ES, Climate Prediction group

Lecturers

Francisco Doblas-Reyes. Head of BSC-ES Department
Rachel White. Research scientist, BSC-ES, Climate Prediction group
Mario Acosta. Researcher,  BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Miguel Castrillo. Research engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Francesco Benincasa. Research engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Raffaele Bernardello. Research scientist, BSC-ES, Climate Prediction group
Daniel Beltran. Research engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Pablo Echevarria. Research engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Núria Pérez. Researcher,  BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
An-Chi Ho. Research engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oriol Jorba. Research scientist, BSC-ES, Climate Prediction group
Francesca Macchia. Senior researcher, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition group
Gilbert Montane. Research engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

 

   
   
   
   
   
   

Materials

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• The User may only download, make and retain a copy of the materials for his/her use for non‐commercial and research purposes.

• The User may not commercially use the material, unless has been granted prior written consent by the Licensor to
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• For further details, please contact BSC‐CNS patc [at] bsc [dot] es

Further information

All PATC Courses at BSC do not charge fees.
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP.

Recommended Accomodation: Please follow the link for map of some local hotels.

CONTACT US for further details about MSc, PhD, Post Doc studies, exchanges and collaboration in education and training with BSC.
For further details about Postgraduate Studies in UPC - Barcelona School of Informatics (FiB), visit the website.

Sponsors: BSC and PRACE 5IP project are funding the PATC @ BSC training events.
If you want to learn more about PRACE Project, visit the website.