PATC: HPC and natural hazards: modelling tsunamis and volcanic plumes using European flagship codes

PRACE Trainings

Date: 02/Dec/2019 Time: 09:00 - 05/Dec/2019 Time: 17:00

Place:
The course will take place in Barcelona Supercomputing Center, within the UPC Campus Nord premises. Vertex Building VS219   

Target group: INTERMEDIATE: for trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge; those who finished the beginners course

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

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Day 1 (Dec, 2)

Session 1 / 10:00am – 1:30pm (3 h lectures)
10:00-11:30 Volcanic clouds and plumes: Introduction to the physical problem
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:30 Introduction FALL3D
13:30-14:30 Lunch break

Session 2 / 2:30pm – 6:00 pm (1:30 h lectures, 2 h practical)
14:30-16:00 Introduction to ASHEE
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-18:00 Installation and compilation of FALL3D and ASHEE

Day 2 (Dec, 3)

Session 1 / 10:00am – 1:30pm (3 h hands-on)
10:00-11:30 FALL3D hands on I
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:30 FALL3D hands on II
13:30-14:30 Lunch break

Session 2 / 2:30pm – 6:00 pm (1:30 h lectures, 2 h practical)
14:30-16:00 ASHEE hands on I
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-18:00 ASHEE hands on II

Day 3 (Dec 4)

Session 1 / 10:00am – 1:30pm (1:30 h lectures, 1:40 h practical)
10:00-11:30 Introduction to tsunami modeling and the Tsunami-HySEA code
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:30 Tsunami-HySEA: from simple to complex simulations
13:30-14:30 Lunch break

Session 2 / 2:30pm – 6:00 pm (3 h hands-on)
14:30-16:00 Tsunami-HySEA hands on I
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-18:00 Tsunami-HySEA hands on II

Day 4 (Dec 5)

Session 1 / 10:00am – 1:30pm (3 h lectures)
10:00-11:30 A brief introduction to the Python language and object oriented programming
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:30 Scientific computing tools and reading files and accessing remote data
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
A brief introduction to the Python language

  • -Installing packages

Object oriented programming

  • -Examples on classes and motivation
  • -How to make a class
  • -Method Objects
  • -Example: manipulating dates and times

Scientific computing tools

  • -Vectors and arrays: basic operations and manipulations
  • -References and copies of arrays
  • -Vectorization
  • -Statistics tools
  • -Data Analysis with Pandas

Reading files and accessing remote data

  • -Read and write multi-column data files
  • -File formats used in geosciences netCDF, HDF5, HDF-EOS 2, and GRIB 1 and 2
  • -Data Access Services: OPeNDAP, NetCDF Subset Service, etc...
  • -Example: Reading data from OpenDAP

Session 2 / 2:30pm – 6:00 pm (3h hands-on)

14:30-16:00 Visualization
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-18:00 Examples and exercises
Visualization

  • -Simple line plots
  • -Adjusting the plot
  • -Visualization of geographic data
  • -3D Scientific data visualization

Examples and exercises

  • -FALL3D pre and post-processing tools

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