PASC22 in Basel (CH) (27-29 June, 2022)

From 27 to 29 June, 2022, several ESiWACE colleagues will  be attending PASC22, the 2022 Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing conference, to present their work and foster exchange, both on behalf of either ESiWACE2 or their home institutions.

Minisymposia:

• Monday, 27 June, 2022, 16:00 - 18:00 CEST, Osaka Room
  MS2A - Leveraging Data Lakes to Manage and Process Scientific Data
  For domain researchers in public research institutions, a research data management solution should ensure the preservation of the data and support and guide them in complying with good scientific practices from the very beginning. In order to discuss the current challenges in data management, their possible solutions and to share personal insights into data lakes, this minisymposium brings different experts together to discuss the potential and technical approaches with the scientific community.
  
  Organisers: Hendrik Nolte (GWDG), and Julian Kunkel (GWDG), session chair: Hendrik Nolte
  Introductory minisymposium MS2A video on YouTube,

• Monday, 27 June, 2022, 16:00 - 18:00 CEST, Sydney Room
  MS2C - Nexus of AI and HPC for Weather, Climate, and Earth System Modelling
  How can AI/ML best be used to build or improve digital twins of the Earth for a wide range of applications, ranging from extreme weather to renewable energy, down to highly localised scales, such as for cities?
  This minisymposium addresses the challenges and opportunities at the nexus of HPC, describing scientific and computing challenges, as well as solutions and visions for the future. Furthermore, the speakers will demonstrate recent developments in workflow software and data management systems enabling the development of efficient and scalable AI solutions for weather and climate modelling.
  
  Organisers: Karthik Kashinath (NVIDIA Inc., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Bing Gong (Forschungszentrum Jülich), and Peter Dueben (ECMWF), session chair: Karthik Kashinath
  Introductory minisymposium MS2C video on YouTube

• Tuesday, 28 June, 2022, 11:00 - 13:00 CEST, Sydney Room
  MS3C - ICON-Next: Current Developments in Rewriting the ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic (ICON) Model for Emerging Architectures
  This minisymposium presents the research directions of four ICON-related initiatives: ICON-22, WarmWorld, EXCLAIM, and ICON-C. All four address technical challenges to enable km-scale simulations with the weather and climate model ICON on emerging exascale high-performance computers, which have mainly heterogeneous hardware architectures.
  
  Organisers: William Sawyer (ETH Zurich / CSCS), and Xavier Lapillonne (MeteoSwiss), session chair: William Sawyer
  Introductory minisymposium MS3C video on YouTube
  
  

Presentations and posters:

• Session MS6C, Wednesday, 29 June, 2022, 14:00 - 14:30 CEST, Sydney Room
  PSyclone: Enabling Performance Portability for Climate and Weather Codes, presentation by Christopher M. Maynard and Rupert Ford
  Christpher M. Maynard will introduce PSyclone, an embedded DSL within Fortran. It has been developed to improve maintainability and performance portability for Climate and weather codes, as they are facing increasingly diverse and heterogeneous architectures on the HPC machines they are running on.
  
  
• Poster session, Tuesday, 28 June, 2022 9:00 - 11:00 CEST, Foyer 2nd Floor
  ARM-Powered Numerical Weather Prediction: Running the ECMWF Model on Fugaku, poster by Sam Hatfield et al
  Sam Hatfield will present a poster on his work to port and benchmark the ECMWF model, the IFS, on Fugaku. For those interested to learn how it is to run Earth-system models on ARM CPUs, come and talk to Sam at the Tuesday morning poster session.