PATC: Earth Sciences Simulation Environments

PRACE Trainings

Date: 27/Nov/2018 Time: 10:00 - 29/Nov/2018 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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Day 1 (Tue, Nov. 27)

10:00-10:15 Welcome and introduction of the BSC Earth Sciences Department. (Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Head of BSC-ES Department)

10:15-10:30 Technical and logistic information. (María Teresa)

10:30-11:30 Introduction to earth science fundamentals and modelling. (Rachel White)

11:30-11:50 Coffee break

11:50-13:30 Introduction to Linux and HPC, BSC facilities, PRACE and RES (Mario)

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 HPC hands-on tutorial. At the end of this tutorial, the students will be able to compile and execute jobs on Mare Nostrum 4. (Mario and Miguel)

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-18:00 Introduction to analysis and visualisation tools for model outputs (s2dverification, MapGenerator, CDO, NCO, panoply, ncview) (Francesco and Nicolau)

 

Day 2 (Wed, Nov 28)

10:00-11:00 Lecture on the MONARCH model. (Oriol and María Teresa)

11:00-12:00 Lecture on setting up and running the model. (Francesca)

12:00-12:30 Coffee break

12:30-14:00 Model hands-on tutorial. Students will run a prepared case. (Francesca and Oriol)

14:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-17:00 Analysis hands-on tutorial. Students will apply tools for analysis and visualisation to the outputs created in the morning. (Francesco and Pierre Antoine)

17:00-17:30 MareNostrum visit [CONFIRMED by Oriol Riu]

 

Day 3 (Thur, Nov 29)

10:00-11:00 Lecture on the EC-EARTH climate model. (Xavier)

11:00-12:00 Lecture on setting up and running the model with Autosubmit. (Miguel)

12:00-12:30 Coffee break

12:30-14:00 Model hands-on tutorial. Students will run with a prepared case. (Miguel and Mario)

14:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-17:00 Analysis hands-on tutorial. Students will apply tools for analysis and visualisation to the outputs created in the morning. (Núria and Nicolau)