Support for the BSC Training Course

Please, bring your own laptop. All the BSC Training Courses are free of charge.

Course conveners: Aude Carreric, Recognized Researcher, BSC-ES, Climate Variability and Change Group
Rosa Rodriguez, Recognized Researcher, BSC-ES, Earth System Services Group

Course lecturers: Earth Sciences Department researchers involved in the group of Computational Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Composition, Climate Prediction and Earth System Services. 

Course Lecturers
Oriol Jorba, Leading Researcher, BSC-ES, Atmospheric Composition Group

Aude Carreric, Recognized Researcher, BSC-ES, Climate Variability and Change Group

Marta Terrado, Recognized Researcher, BSC-ES, Earth System Services Group

Mario Acosta, Leading Researcher, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Iria Ayan, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Eric Ferrer, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Senior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Gilbert Montane, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Alejandro García, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Genís Bonet, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

An-Chi Ho, Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Eva Rifà, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

Victoria Agudetse, Junior Research Engineer, BSC-ES, Computational Earth Sciences Group

 

Objectives: This training course aims to cover the basics of 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.
  • Configure targeted earth science applications with the NMMB-MONARCH atmosphere chemistry 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, running numerical simulations, monitoring the execution of supercomputing jobs, and analysing and visualising model results.

Level: (All courses are designed for specialists with at least 1st cycle degree or similar background experience)
For trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge

Prerequisites:

At least a University degree in progress in Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences or a 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

Agenda: 

Time

Title

Lecturers

Day 1 (Monday, 30 October)

09:30

09:45

Welcome and introduction of the BSC Earth Sciences Department

Oriol Jorba

09:45

10:00

Technical and logistical information

Rosa Rodriguez

Aude Carreric

10:00

10:30

Introduction to Earth science fundamentals and modelling

Aude Carreric

10:30

11:00

Break

 

11:00

11:30

Introduction to Earth System Services

Marta Terrado

11:30

13:00

Introduction to Linux and HPC, BSC facilities + preparation/checks for hands-on tutorial after lunch break

Mario Acosta

13:00

14:00

Lunch break

 

14:00

15:30

HPC hands-on tutorial. At the end of this tutorial, the students will be able to compile and execute jobs on Mare Nostrum 4.

Iria Ayan 

Eric Ferrer

15:30

16:00

Break

 

16:00

17:30

Introduction to most common analysis and visualisation tools for earth models outputs

Francesco Benincasa 



 

Time

Title

Lecturers

Day 2 (Tuesday, 31 October)

09:30

10:00

Lecture on the NMMB-MONARCH atmosphere chemistry model. 

Oriol Jorba

10:00

10:30

Lecture on setting up and running the NMMB-MONARCH model with Autosubmit.

Gilbert Montane

Alejandro García

10:30

11:00

Break

 

11:00

13:00

Model hands-on tutorial. Students will run a prepared case.

Gilbert Montane

Alejandro García

Eric Ferrer 

Genís Bonet

13:00

14:00

Lunch break

 

14:00

16:00

Analysis hands-on tutorial: R tools

An-Chi Ho 

Eva Rifà

Victoria Agudetse

16:00

16:30

Networking and working time

Closure

Rosa Rodriguez

Aude Carreric

Starts
Ends
CET
Online
Online via Zoom

For further details and practical info please visit the local course page: https://www.bsc.es/education/training/bsc-training/bsc-training-course-earth-sciences-simulation-environments