[ONLINE] PATC: Earth Sciences Simulation Environments

Date: 09/Nov/2021 Time: 09:30 - 11/Nov/2021 Time: 13:30

Place:
Online via Zoom

 

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.

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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

Please download and carefully read the following recommendations regarding the logistics that participants enrolling into the online PATC at BSC are expected to follow.

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

 

Conveners

Herve Petetin, Research Scientist, BSC-ES, Earth System Services Group

Vladimir Lapin, Recognized Researcher, BSC-ES, Climate Prediction Group

Course Lecturers

Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Head of BSC-ES Department

Eleftheria Exarchou, Research Scientist, BSC-ES, Climate Prediction Group

Mario Acosta, Postdoctoral Researcher, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
Miguel Castrillo, Research Support Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
Enza di Tomaso, Postdoctoral Researcher, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition Group
 
Jan Mateu, Recognized Researcher, BSC-ES, Earth System Services Group
 
Francesca Macchia, Researcher Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
Gilbert Montane, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
Francesco Benincasa, Research Support Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
Amalia Vradi, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
An-Chi Ho, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
Nuria Perez, Postdoctoral Researcher, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
 
 
 
 
 
 

Materials

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Further information

All PATC Courses at BSC do not charge fees.
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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.