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