20th ECMWF workshop on high performance computing in meteorology
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Location: Tecnopolo di Bologna
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| Monday, 9 October 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 13:00 – 17:00 | Today's programme is not being livestreamed. | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Arrival and registration | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 |
Opening remarks by Dr Florence Rabier, ECMWF Director-General and invited guests:
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| 14:30 – 14:50 |
Presentation and discussion around the ECMWF High-Performance Computing System and the European Weather Cloud: The ECMWF High Performance Computing Facility
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Oliver Treiber (ECMWF)
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| 15:10 – 16:10 | Tour of the computer hall | |
| 14:50 – 15:10 |
Presentation and discussion around the ECMWF High-Performance Computing System and the European Weather Cloud: Implementation of the Production European Weather Cloud
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Xavier Abellan (ECMWF)
Stig Telfer (StackHPC Ltd)
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| 16:20 – 17:20 |
Panel discussion on the topic of “Diversifying HPC” chaired by Antonio Navarra
Invited speakers will debate the various challenges and opportunities facing the HPC community. Panellists:
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| 17:20 – 17:30 | Group photo | |
| 17:30 – 19:30 | Aperitif and buffet dinner | |
| Transport to town centre | ||
Location: San Domenico
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| Tuesday, 10 October 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 08:00 – 11:50 |
Morning session
Chair: Balthasar Reuter
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| 08:00 – 09:00 |
Keynote: Modular Supercomputing: enabling application diversity in HPC
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Estela Suarez (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich Supercomputing Centre)
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| 09:00 – 09:15 | Coffee break | |
| 09:15 – 09:30 |
Digital Twins of the Earth system
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Thomas Geenen
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| 09:30 – 09:55 |
Technical Challenges of deploying and running future Destination Earth Twins
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Utz-Uwe Haus (HPE HPC EMEA Research Lab)
Craig Prunty (SiPearl)
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| 09:55 – 10:20 |
Destination Earth, Data Spaces and a European Cloud Federation: opportunities and challenges
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Charalampos Tsitlakidis (European Commission - DG CONNECT)
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
The Earth-2 Service Architecture
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Peter Messmer (NVIDIA)
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Comfort break | |
| 11:00 – 11:25 |
Machine learning at ECMWF
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Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)
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| 11:25 – 11:50 |
AI for Simulation: Accelerating HPC with AI and IPUs
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Alexander Titterton (Graphcore)
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| 11:50 – 13:10 | Lunch break | |
| 13:10 – 17:10 |
Afternoon session
Chair: Martin Palkovic
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| 13:10 – 13:35 |
Met Office HPC Update
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Paul Selwood (Met Office)
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| 13:35 – 14:00 |
IFShub - An integrated web interface to IFS developer workflow
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Paul Burton (ECMWF)
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| 14:00 – 14:25 |
Earth system modeling on Modular Supercomputing Architectures: coupled atmosphere-ocean simulations with ICON
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Olaf Stein (Research Centre Juelich)
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| 14:25 – 14:50 | Coffee break | |
| 14:50 – 15:15 |
The concept of NCAR’s community software facility
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Thomas Hauser (NCAR)
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| 15:15 – 15:40 |
LFRic and NGMS: Meeting challenges of exascale through diversifying HP
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Iva Kavčič (Met Office)
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| 15:40 – 16:05 |
Exascale Computing for Meteorology
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Ilene Carpenter (HPE)
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| 16:05 – 16:20 | Comfort break | |
| 16:20 – 16:45 |
Towards Diversified Exascale Numerical Weather Prediction Workflows
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Christopher Harrop (CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA Global Systemes Laboratory)
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| 16:45 – 17:10 |
ICON on its Way to Exascale – Status and Next Steps
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Claudia Frauen (German Climate Computing Center)
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Location: San Domenico
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| Wednesday, 11 October 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 07:45 – 11:50 |
Morning session
Chair: Chris Kitchen
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| 07:45 – 08:45 |
Keynote: Leveraging diversity in all dimensions to predict multiscale meteorology and its impacts
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Katherine Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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| 08:45 – 09:30 | Coffee break | |
| 09:30 – 09:55 |
HPC update for Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Adam Smith (Bureau of Meteorology)
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| 09:55 – 10:20 |
Diverse Aspects of Computing at DWD
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Ulrich Schättler (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
Embracing Diversity and Democratizing High-Performance Computing: Cultivating Inclusion and Driving Innovation
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Mthetho Sovara (Centre for High Performance Computing)
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Comfort break | |
| 11:00 – 11:25 |
A Deep Dive into DPU Computing – Addressing HPC Performance Bottlenecks
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Richard Graham (NVIDIA)
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| 11:25 – 11:50 |
Numerical Weather prediction at MeteoSwiss using ICON on GPUs
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Xavier Lapillonne (MeteoSwiss)
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| 11:50 – 13:10 | Lunch break | |
| 13:10 – 17:10 |
Afternoon session
Chair: Ioan Hadade
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| 13:10 – 13:35 |
Foundation Model in Earth Science: Towards Atmospheric Prediction and Analysis
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Sujit Roy (University of Alabama in Huntsville; NASA MSFC)
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| 13:35 – 14:00 |
Code refactoring patterns targeting bandwidth optimized architectures and heterogeneous architectures
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Jacob Poulsen (Intel)
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| 14:00 – 14:25 |
Performance Optimization of ECTrans on AMD GPUs
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Paul Mullowney (AMD, Inc)
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| 14:25 – 14:50 | Coffee break | |
| 14:50 – 15:10 |
Hybrid 2024: Adapting IFS for a hybrid CPU-GPU architectures
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Michael Lange (ECMWF)
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| 15:10 – 15:30 |
GPU adaptation of NWP single column algorithms
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Michael Staneker (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 – 15:50 |
Automating GPU adaptation of NWP single column physics using Loki
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Ahmad Nawab (ECMWF)
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Heterogeneous HPC to the rescue? Ways to improve the energy efficiency of climate simulations today and tomorrow
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Jan Frederik Engels (German Climate Computing Center)
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| 16:10 – 16:35 |
Integrated Forecasting System Performance Optimisation
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Richard Graham (NVIDIA)
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| 16:35 – 17:00 |
Performance Portability and Programmability in the Evolution of Weather Codes Towards Heterogeneous Platfoms
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Camilo Moreno (Intel Corporation)
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| 17:30 – 20:00 | ||
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Dinner at Cantina Bentivoglio
Starting at 18:30 at Via Mascarella 4/b
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Location: San Domenico
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| Thursday, 12 October 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 08:00 – 13:05 |
Morning session
Chair: Cristina Duma
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| 07:45 – 08:45 |
Keynote: ML for High-Performance Climate: Massive Data Post Processing, Extreme Compression, and Earth Virtualization Engines
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Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)
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| 08:45 – 09:30 | Coffee break | |
| 09:30 – 09:55 |
Best Practices for NWP in the cloud
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Tim Brown (AWS)
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| 09:55 – 10:20 |
Exploration of public cloud computing by an operational site running the Unified Model
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Jeff Zais (NIWA)
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
Weather forecasting on the cloud: an evaluation of IFS performance on Azure HPC instances
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Cathal O Brien (ECMWF)
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Comfort break | |
| 11:00 – 11:25 |
Enabling Elastic Cloud Integration with Kubernetes
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Timothy Whitcomb (US Naval Research Laboratory)
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| 11:25 – 11:50 |
Designing sustainable buildings globally with Hybrid-cloud
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Niall Kennedy (YellowDog)
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| 11:50 – 13:05 | Lunch break | |
| 13:10 – 17:10 |
Afternoon session
Chair: Thomas Geenen
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| 13:10 – 13:35 |
Diversifying Your HPC Technology with Azure: A New Era of Scientific Computing
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Mike Kiernan (Microsoft)
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| 13:35 – 14:00 |
New Generation HPC for CMA
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Shuai Deng (National Meteorological Information Centre)
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| 14:00 – 14:25 |
Optimization of the Digital Twins for Weather and Climate Predictions: an exciting battleground
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Stella Paronuzzi Ticco (BSC)
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| 14:25 – 14:50 | Coffee break | |
| 14:50 – 15:10 |
Project Rajin and UXarray: community tools for the analysis of kilometer scale climate and weather model output
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John Clyne (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))
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| 15:10 – 15:30 |
Seeking portability and productivity for future NWP code with GT4Py
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Christian Kühnlein (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 – 15:50 |
GT4Py: A Python framework for weather and climate applications
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Till Ehrengruber (CSCS)
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Pace: A GPU-enabled implementation of FV3GFS using GT4Py
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Oliver Elbert (NOAA)
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| 16:10 – 16:20 | Comfort break | |
| 16:20 – 17:10 | Poster session | |
Location: San Domenico
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| Friday, 13 October 2023 | Speaker(s) | |
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| 08:00 – 13:00 |
Morning session
Chair 1 (9:00-11:45): Sam Hatfield |
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| 07:45 – 08:10 |
Updates of HPC in Japan Meteorological Agency
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Eizi Toyoda (Japan Meteorological Agency)
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| 08:10 – 08:30 |
Domain Specific Language Adoption into NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System code
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Christopher Kung (NASA / SAIC)
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| 08:30 – 08:50 |
Transforming Weather and Climate Code with Psyclone
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Sergi Siso (STFC Hartree Centre)
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| 08:50 – 09:10 |
Parallel Software Framework of MCV Model
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Qingu Jiang (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre)
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| 09:10 – 09:55 | Coffee break | |
| 09:55 – 10:20 |
Computation Storage as seen from the Excalidata project
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Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN Storage)
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| 10:20 – 10:45 |
Save Up to 260 CO2e per PB with the WEKA Data Platform
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Derek Burke (WEKA)
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Comfort break | |
| 11:00 – 11:25 |
I/O management at NCEP. Problems and Progress
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George Vandenberghe (NOAA/NCEP)
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| 11:25 – 11:50 |
MME REP: Climate Data Records and EO data processing in a server-less computing paradigm
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Salvatore Pinto (EUMETSAT)
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| 11:50 – 12:00 | Comfort break | |
| 12:00 – 12:25 |
MultIO: A framework for message-driven data routing in high-resolution weather and climate modelling
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Domokos Sarmany (ECMWF)
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| 12:25 – 12:50 |
EarthWorks: The computational and engineering challenges faced when building a global storm-resolving resolution modeling system
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Sheri Mickelson (NCAR)
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| 12:50 – 13:00 |
Closing remarks
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Martin Palkovic (ECMWF)
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