iCAS 2022

Agenda
Agenda Track

All times in Stresa, Italy local time.

Abstracts and Bios

Presentation Slides

 

Sunday

September 11, 2022

Check-In and On-Site Registration (Hotel Lobby)

Welcome Reception (poolside)

Monday

September 12, 2022

Morning Coffee

Opening Remarks and Logistics

Evolving the HPC Facility
Michael Papka, ANL

A.M. Break

Levante: The Next Generation System at DKRZ
Thomas Ludwig, DKRZ

Energy Efficiency and High Performance Computing (A Decade of Experience and a Five-Year Look Ahead)
Aaron Anderson, NREL

Lunch

HPC for Meteorology in the Exascale Era: A view from HPE
Ilene Carpenter, HPE

HPC Future Directions and Work Force Needs at NASA Earth Science Division
Tsengdar Lee, NASA

Moving the Dial: Attempting to Change the Demographic Diversity of NCAR’s HPC User Community
Dave Hart, NCAR

P.M. Break

Open Discussion: HPC Facilities and Workforce Issues

Talks End

Monday Reception

Tuesday

September 13, 2022

Morning Coffee

ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth System and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales.
Cathy Hohenegger, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Preparing the ICON Earth-System Model for the Exascale Era
Hendryk Bockelmann, DKRZ - Applications

ICON NWP on GPU
Marek Jacob, DWD

A.M. Break

ESiWACE: Excellence in simulation of climate and weather in Europe
Joachim Biercamp, DKRZ

How domain-specific languages in Python can bridge the software productivity gap in weather and climate science: Demonstration with the SHiELD Atmospheric Model
Tobias Wicky, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)

Lunch until 1:30pm

Afternoon excursion to Lago d'Orta (optional - must have registered for the excursion to attend)

2:00pm (14h00) Meeting in hotel lobby.
2:15pm (14h15) private bus for the excursion. 
3:00pm (15h00) Train from bus parking to the centre of Orta.
3:30pm (15h30) private boat to St.Giulio island.
5:00pm (17h00) Return by train and bus.
6:00pm (18h00) (approx) Arrive hotel Bristol. 

Wednesday

September 14, 2022

Morning Coffee

Advanced Visualization Infrastructure for Scientific Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
Kenny Gruchalla, NREL

NCAR's Pivot to Python
John Clyne, NCAR

Pangeo: An open, inclusive, reproducible and scalable Geoscience data analytic community
Anne Claire Mireille Fouilloux, University of Oslo

A.M. Break

Workflow concepts meeting the evolving challenges of climate research data handling
Karsten Peters, DKRZ - Data Management

Addressing the FLOPS to IOPS gap with Python based in-situ processing
Burlen Loring, LBL

Lunch

Scientific Visualization using Omniverse
Niklas Röber, NVIDIA

Digital Twins and Optimization
Thomas Geenen, ECMWF

NVIDIA Progress with Earth-2 Digital Twin Initiative
Stan Posey, NVIDIA

P.M. Break

AMD technologies for accelerated computing
Daniele Piccarozzi, AMD

ROCm: An E2E SW solution for HPC & AI on accelerated platform
Mazda Sabony, AMD

Open Discussion: Software and Hardware

Talks End

Banquet Dinner at Ristorante Casa Bella - Isola dei Pescatori

7:00pm (19h00) Meet in Hotel lobby.
7:15pm (19h15) Boat to island. 
7:30pm (19h30) Dinner.
10:00pm (22h00) Boat returns to Stresa.

Thursday

September 15, 2022

Morning Coffee

The NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange: A Large-Capacity Repository for Open-Access Earth Science Data
J-F de La Beaujardière, NCAR

Achievement unlocked: Weather forecasting in the cloud
Richard Lawrence, UK Met Office

NCAR's Derecho supercomputer: Getting community codes ready for accelerated node architecture
Thomas Hauser, NCAR

A.M. Break

Open Discussion: The future of our computational environments

Concluding Remarks

Lunch

End of Conference