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
Conveners
Dene Bowdalo, Recognised Researcher, Atmospheric Composition Group, Earth Sciences, BSC
Iria Ayan, Junior Research Engineer, Computational Earth Sciences Group, Earth Sciences, BSC
Course Lecturers
Oriol Jorba, Leading Researcher, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition Group
Eleftheria Exarchou, Recognised Research, BSC-ES, Climate Variability and Change Group
Mario Acosta, Recognised Researcher, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Miguel Castrillo, Senior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Maria Gonçalves Ageitos, Established Researcher, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition Group
Francesca Macchia, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Gilbert Montane, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Alejandro Garcia, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Eric Ferrer, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Francesco Benincasa, Senior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Miriam Olid, Research Support Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Santiago Enciso, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition Group
Franco Lopez, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition Group
An-Chi Ho, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Eva Rifa, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group
Materials
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Further information
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