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Location: Tecnopolo di Bologna
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| Monday, 9 October 2023 | ||
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| 13:00 to 17:00 | Today's programme is not being livestreamed. | |
| 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 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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Speaker: Oliver Treiber (ECMWF)
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| 15:10 to 16:10 | Tour of the computer hall | |
| 14:50 to 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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Speaker: Xavier Abellan (ECMWF)
Speaker: Stig Telfer (StackHPC Ltd)
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| 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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| 17:20 to 17:30 | Group photo | |
| 17:30 to 19:30 | Aperitif and buffet dinner | |
| Transport to town centre | ||
Location: San Domenico
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| Tuesday, 10 October 2023 | ||
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| 08:00 to 11:50 |
Morning session
Chair: Balthasar Reuter
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| 08:00 to 09:00 |
Keynote: Modular Supercomputing: enabling application diversity in HPC
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Thomas Geenen (ECMWF)
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| 09:30 to 09:55 |
Technical Challenges of deploying and running future Destination Earth Twins
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Speaker: Utz-Uwe Haus (HPE)
Speaker: Craig Prunty (SiPearl)
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| 09:55 to 10:20 |
Destination Earth, Data Spaces and a European Cloud Federation: opportunities and challenges
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Speaker: Charalampos Tsitlakidis (European Commission - DG CONNECT)
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| 10:20 to 10:45 |
The Earth-2 Service Architecture
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Speaker: Peter Messmer (NVIDIA)
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| 10:45 to 11:00 | Comfort break | |
| 11:00 to 11:25 |
Machine learning at ECMWF
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Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)
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| 11:25 to 11:50 |
AI for Simulation: Accelerating HPC with AI and IPUs
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Speaker: Alexander Titterton (Graphcore)
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| 11:50 to 13:10 | Lunch break | |
| 13:10 to 17:10 |
Afternoon session
Chair: Martin Palkovic
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| 13:10 to 13:35 |
Met Office HPC Update
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Speaker: Paul Selwood (Met Office)
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| 13:35 to 14:00 |
IFShub - An integrated web interface to IFS developer workflow
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Iva Kavčič (Met Office)
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| 15:40 to 16:05 |
Exascale Computing for Meteorology
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Claudia Frauen (German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ))
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Location: San Domenico
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| Wednesday, 11 October 2023 | ||
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| 07:45 to 11:50 |
Morning session
Chair: Chris Kitchen
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| 07:45 to 08:45 |
Keynote: Leveraging diversity in all dimensions to predict multiscale meteorology and its impacts
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Speaker: Katherine Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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| 08:45 to 09:30 | Coffee break | |
| 09:30 to 09:55 |
HPC update for Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Speaker: Adam Smith (Bureau of Meteorology)
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| 09:55 to 10:20 |
Diverse Aspects of Computing at DWD
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Speaker: Ulrich Schättler (DWD)
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| 10:20 to 10:45 |
Embracing Diversity and Democratizing High-Performance Computing: Cultivating Inclusion and Driving Innovation
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Speaker: Mthetho Sovara (Centre for High Performance Computing)
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| 10:45 to 11:00 | Comfort break | |
| 11:00 to 11:25 |
A Deep Dive into DPU Computing – Addressing HPC Performance Bottlenecks
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Speaker: Richard Graham (NVIDIA)
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| 11:25 to 11:50 |
Numerical Weather prediction at MeteoSwiss using ICON on GPUs
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Speaker: Xavier Lapillonne (MeteoSwiss)
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| 11:50 to 13:10 | Lunch break | |
| 13:10 to 17:10 |
Afternoon session
Chair: Ioan Hadade
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| 13:10 to 13:35 |
Foundation Model in Earth Science: Towards Atmospheric Prediction and Analysis
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Speaker: Sujit Roy (University of Alabama in Huntsville; NASA MSFC)
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| 13:35 to 14:00 |
Code refactoring patterns targeting bandwidth optimized architectures and heterogeneous architectures
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Speaker: Jacob Poulsen (Intel)
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| 14:00 to 14:25 |
Performance Optimization of ECTrans on AMD GPUs
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Michael Lange (ECMWF)
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| 15:10 to 15:30 |
GPU adaptation of NWP single column algorithms
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Speaker: Michael Staneker (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 to 15:50 |
Automating GPU adaptation of NWP single column physics using Loki
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Jan Frederik Engels (German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ))
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| 16:10 to 16:35 |
Integrated Forecasting System Performance Optimisation
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Speaker: Richard Graham (NVIDIA)
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| 16:35 to 17:00 |
Performance Portability and Programmability in the Evolution of Weather Codes Towards Heterogeneous Platfoms
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Speaker: Camilo Moreno (Intel Corporation)
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| 17:30 to 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 | ||
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| 08:00 to 13:05 |
Morning session
Chair: Cristina Duma
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| 07:45 to 08:45 |
Keynote: ML for High-Performance Climate: Massive Data Post Processing, Extreme Compression, and Earth Virtualization Engines
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Speaker: Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)
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| 08:45 to 09:30 | Coffee break | |
| 09:30 to 09:55 |
Best Practices for NWP in the cloud
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Speaker: Timothy Brown (Amazon Web Services)
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| 09:55 to 10:20 |
Exploration of public cloud computing by an operational site running the Unified Model
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Timothy Whitcomb (US Naval Research Laboratory)
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| 11:25 to 11:50 |
Designing sustainable buildings globally with Hybrid-cloud
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Speaker: Niall Kennedy (YellowDog)
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| 11:50 to 13:05 | Lunch break | |
| 13:10 to 17:10 |
Afternoon session
Chair: Thomas Geenen
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| 13:10 to 13:35 |
Diversifying Your HPC Technology with Azure: A New Era of Scientific Computing
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Speaker: Mike Kiernan (Microsoft)
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| 13:35 to 14:00 |
New Generation HPC for CMA
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Christian Kühnlein (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 to 15:50 |
GT4Py: A Python framework for weather and climate applications
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Speaker: Till Ehrengruber (CSCS / ETH Zurich)
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| 15:50 to 16:10 |
Pace: A GPU-enabled implementation of FV3GFS using GT4Py
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Speaker: Oliver Elbert (NOAA)
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| 16:10 to 16:20 | Comfort break | |
| 16:20 to 17:10 | Poster session | |
Location: San Domenico
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| Friday, 13 October 2023 | ||
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| 08:00 to 13:00 |
Morning session
Chair 1 (9:00-11:45): Sam Hatfield |
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| 07:45 to 08:10 |
Updates of HPC in Japan Meteorological Agency
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Speaker: Eizi Toyoda (Japan Meteorological Agency)
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| 08:10 to 08:30 |
Domain Specific Language Adoption into NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System code
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Speaker: Christopher Kung (NASA / SAIC)
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| 08:30 to 08:50 |
Transforming Weather and Climate Code with Psyclone
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Speaker: Sergi Siso (STFC Hartree Centre)
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| 08:50 to 09:10 |
Parallel Software Framework of MCV Model
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Speaker: Qingu Jiang (CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre)
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| 09:10 to 09:55 | Coffee break | |
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Computation Storage as seen from the Excalidata project
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: 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
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Speaker: Sheri Mickelson (NCAR)
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| 12:50 to 13:00 |
Closing remarks
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Speaker: Martin Palkovic (ECMWF)
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