Lugar del evento
Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Formación técnica
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29 Nov 2017
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Barcelona
PATC course organized by Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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;
- Build and configure targeted earth science applications with the NMMB/BSC-CTM 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
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
More information in the BSC website.
