Meteorological and climate modelling | GRNET PRACE TRAINING CENTER July 4, 2018 1 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu Agenda – Wed 4 July 2018 ▶ 10:30 Introduction to PRACE – Aris Sotiropoulos ▶ 11:00 Numerical modelling with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model: Introduction - Applications - Best practices – Dr Theodore Giannaros ▶ 13:30 Break (snack/coffee) ▶ 14:00 Regional climate modeling with WRF – Dr Stergios Kartsios ▶ 16:30 Open Discussion – Dimitris Dellis 2 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu PRACE | The Research Infrastructure Supporting Science and Industry through Provision of High Performance Computing Resources Aris Sotiropoulos HPC Project Manager GRNET SA 3 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu PRACE | what we do ▶ Open access to best-of-breed HPC systems to EU scientists and researchers ▶ Variety of architectures to support the different scientific communities ▶ High standards in computational science and engineering ▶ Peer review on European scale to foster scientific excellence ▶ Robust and persistent funding scheme for HPC supported by national governments and European Commission (EC) 4 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu PRACE | 25 members Hosting Members General Partners (PRACE 2) ▶ France ▶ Belgium ▶ Luxembourg ▶ Germany ▶ Bulgaria ▶ Netherlands ▶ Italy ▶ Cyprus ▶ Norway ▶ Spain ▶ Czech Republic ▶ Poland ▶ Switzerland ▶ Denmark ▶ Portugal ▶ Finland ▶ Slovakia ▶ Greece ▶ Slovenia ▶ Hungary ▶ Sweden ▶ Ireland ▶ Turkey ▶ Israel ▶ United Kingdom ▶ Austria (in a few days) 5 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu HPC pyramid 6 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu TOP500.org 7 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu TOP500.org 8 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu TOP500.org EU 9 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu JUQUEEN: IBM BlueGene/Q GAUSS @ FZJ, Jülich, Germany PRACE | Tier-0 Systems #22 Top 500 TOP500.org (Nov ‘17) SuperMUC: IBM MareNostrum: IBM GAUSS @ LRZ, Garching, Germany BSC, Barcelona, Spain #44 Top 500 #16 Top 500 Piz Daint: Cray XC50 CSCS, Lugano, Switzerland Hazel Hen: Cray #3 Top 500 GAUSS/HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany #19 Top 500 MARCONI: Lenovo CURIE: Bull Bullx CINECA, Bologna, Italy GENCI/CEA, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France #14 Top 500 #93 Top 500 10 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu PRACE | achievements ▶ 524 scientific projects enabled ▶ 14 000 000 000 (thousand million) core hours awarded since 2010 ▶ Of which 63% led by another PI nationality than the HM ▶ R&D access to industrial users with >50 companies supported ▶ >10 000 people trained by 6 PRACE AdVanced Training Centers and other events ▶ >60 Petaflops of peak performance on 7 world-class systems ▶ 24 PRACE members, including 5 Hosting Members (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland) ▶ Only e-Infrastructure as Landmark on the ESFRI Roadmap 2016 11 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu PRACE | current services Support Communication, Dissemination, Outreach Access - Website Tier-0 systems (open R&D) Application Enabling & Support - Public Relations TowardsPRACE Partners - Project Access - Preparatory access Type C - Scientific Communication 1-3 years - Preparatory access Type D - Summer of HPC - Preparatory Access - Tier-1 for Tier-0 Type A, B, C, D - SHAPE Events - HLST support Users - PRACEdays - Tier-1 systems (open R&D) - SC, ISC, ICT, ICRI, DI4R, … - DECI Programme Training - Training Portal Operation & Coordination of the - PATC, PTC common PRACE Operational Services - Seasonal Schools & on - Service Catalogue demand - PRACE MD-VPN network - International HPC Summer - Security TowardsEnd School - MOOC HPC Commissioning & Prototyping - Technology Watch, PCP - Code Vault - Infrastructure WS - Best Practice Guides - Best Practices - White Papers - UEABS 12 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu Criterion: PRACE | access Scientific Excellence ▶ Free-of-charge, obligation to publish results at the end of the award period ▶ Project Access (bi-annual calls) ▶ For a specific project; award period 1 to 3 years ▶ For individual researchers and (international) research groups (PI has to come from a PRACE 2 supporting member) ▶ Requires to demonstrate technical feasibility of project ▶ Preparatory Access ▶ Optionally with support from PRACE experts ▶ Prepare proposals for Project Access ▶ SHAPE projects receive Preparatory Access ▶ DECI ▶ 0,5% of resources for CoEs 13 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu PRACE | training 6 PRACE Advanced Training Centres a sustained, high-quality training and 4 PRACE Training Centres education service for the European HPC PRACE Training Events: Seasonal community Schools, International HPC Summer Different levels of training School, On-demand training events • Basic, intermediate, advanced HPC PRACE Training and Events portal • Parallel programming • Accelerators Code Vault • Performance optimisation Massive Open Online Courses Domain-specific topics (MOOCs) • Simulation software Summer of HPC • Visualisation (Programme for undergraduate and • Data intensive computing postgraduate students) 14 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION www.prace-ri.eu 15 GRNET PTC, July 4, 2018 @GRNET HQ, Athens, Greece www.prace-ri.eu.