2017 International Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences (iCAS) Symposium

Agenda
Agenda Track

Sunday

3:00-5:00 - Early Registration

5:00-7:00 - Reception - Remembering Al Kellie

 

Monday

8:45 - Welcoming Remarks, Anke Kamrath, NCAR

9:00 - Keynote - "Modeling at NCAR: Pushing the Frontiers of Weather and Climate Prediction", Dr. Andrew Gettelman, NCAR

10:00 - "Climate Change Service, The Climate Data Store & its toolbox", Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF

10:30 - Break

11:00 - "Preparing the NERSC Community for Next-Generation HPC Architectures", Richard Gerber, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

11:30 - Vendor - Hewlett Packard Enterprise "High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence", Eng Lim Goh

12:00 - Lunch in the La Brasserie

1:30 - Vendor - Intel "A Systems Architecture for Imbedding Predictive Climate Simulation in the Digital Economy", Dr. Mark Seager

2:00 - "KIAPS next generation global model", Young C. Kwon, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, KIAPS

2:30 - "Beyond Earth Simulator", Makoto Tsukakoshi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

3:00 - Break

3:30 - "Development of a Decision Making Support System for Responding to Natural Disasters", Minsu Joh, KISTI

4:00 - "Workflow-Driven Geoinformatics Applications and Training in the Big Data Era", Ilkay Altintas, SDSC/UCSD

4:30 - "Environmental Sensing at the Edge: Waggle and the Array of Things", Peter Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory

5:00–6:00 - Reception in the Foyer 

 

Tuesday

8:00–9:00 - Welcome Coffee in the Foyer

9:00 - "Canadian Adventures in HPC Migration", Luc Corbeil, Shared Services Canada

9:30 - "Ensemble forecast system design for high-impact weather prediction applications", Glen Romine, NCAR

10:00 - "On the Development of an Integrated Data-Driven Modelling and Forecasting System for the Red Sea", Ibrahim Hoteit, KAUST/Saudia Arabia

10:30 - Break

11:00–12:30 - "Data Compression Panel"

12:30 - Vendor - NVIDIA/PGI "NVIDIA Developments for Earth System Modeling", Dave Norton

Afternoon Off

 

Wednesday

8:00–9:00 - Welcome Coffee in the Foyer

9:00 - Keynote - "The U.S. D.O.E. Exascale Computing Project - Goals and Challenges", Paul Messina, Argonne National Lab

10:00 - "Project Zeta: an integrated simulation and analysis platform for earth system science", Dr. Richard Loft, NCAR 

10:30 - Break

11:00 - "Sunway TaihuLight: "Designing and Tuning Scientific Applications at the Scale of 10 million Cores", Haohuan Fu, Tsinghua University, Bejing, China

11:30 - Vendor - Mellenox "Next Generation of Co-Processors Emerges-In-Network Computing", Dr. Richard Graham                    

12:00 - Lunch in the La Brasserie

1:30 - Vendor - Cray "Emerging data analysis technologies for the Earth Sciences", Dr. Phil Brown

2:00 - "Balancing Model Resolution and Ensemble Size", James L. Kinter, COLA / George Mason University

3:00 - Break

3:30–5:00 - "CMIP6 Analytics and Workflows Panel"

6:00–7:00 - Cocktails in the Foyer

7:00–10:00 - Banquet in the Rotonde de l'Europe

 

Thursday

 

8:00–9:00 - Welcome Coffee in the Foyer

9:00 - "From Simulation to Analytics: Towards a Cyber Infrastructure for Exascale Global Circulation Models", Dr. Tsengdar Lee, NASA Center for Climate Simulations

9:30 - "ECMWF's Next Generation IO for the IFS Model and Product Generation: Future workflow adaptations", Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF

10:00 - Vendor - IBM "Workflow Support for Weather Simulation", Yoonho (Yoon) Park

10:30 - Break

11:00 - "World Data Center for Climate at DKRZ", Hannes Thiemann, DKRZ

11:30 - "Cheyenne and Beyond: NCAR's Research Computing and Storage Roadmap to 2022", Dave Hart, NCAR

12:00 - Lunch in the La Brasserie

1:30 - "Improvement of MPAS on the Integration Speed and the Accuracy", Wonsu Kim, KISTI

2:00 - "Performance, accuracy and bit-reproducibility aspects in handling transcendental functions with Cray and Intel compilers for the Met Office Unified Model", Dr. Ilia Bermous, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

2:30 - Concluding Remarks