Please see each day for specific information
3:00-5:00pm Early Registration
5:00-7:00pm Welcome Reception
9:00am Welcome Coffee
9:45am Opening Remarks/Anke Kamrath
10:00am "Present State and Future of Computing at ECMWF"
Martin Palkovič
ECMWF
10:30am Break
11:00am "NERSC 9: A Pre-Exacscale System for Simulation, Data,
and Learning"
Richard Gerber
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
(NERSC)
11:30am Vendor- Cray
"Cray's Vision for converged architectures and emerging
HPC technologies"
Ilene Carpenter
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Vendor- PGI
"PGI Compiler Assisted Software Testing"
Dave Norton
2:00pm "Applying Data Analytics and Machine Learning to Storage
Systems to Help Meet Organizational Goals"
Bill Anderson
NCAR
2:30pm "The New Innovation Game: Rebooting Infrastructure for
more productive Climate, Weather, Earth, and
Environmental Systems Research"
Ben Evans
National Computational Infrastructure (Australia)
3:00pm Break
3:30pm "Data Assimilation using the US National Water Model:
Application to Hurricane Florence"
Moha el Gharamti
NCAR
4:00pm "Pangeo: The quest to give scientists back their flow"
Niall Robinson
UK Met Office Informatics Lab
4:30pm "Climate modeling workflow at IPSL: Producing (a lot of)
CMIP6 simulations and making sense of them"
Sébastien Denvil
Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)
5:00pm Reception
8:00am Welcome Coffee
9:00am "NCAR's CMIP6 Efforts"
Sheri Mickelson
NCAR
9:30am "Ultra-high resolution supercell simluations visualized
with Vapor 3"
Leigh Orf
University of Wisconsin
10:00am "How to use deep learning in weather and climate
models"
Peter Dueben
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
(ECMWF)
10:30am Break
11:00am Vendor-Mellanox
"InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology for
Compute Intensive Applications"
Richard Graham
11:30am "Accelerating Improvements cycle in the climate
modeling enterprise"
Antonio Navarra
Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC)
12:00pm "Status of climate prediction and future challenges"
François Counillon
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
(NERSC)
12:30pm Afternoon off
2:00pm Bus leaves for Lake Orta Excursion
~4 hour excursion
8:00am Welcome Coffee
9:00am "The Daniel K. Inoue Solar Telescope (DKIST): A Next
Generation Ground Based Solar Telescope"
Alisdair Davey
National Solar Observatory
10:00am "Machine Learning and Data Driven HPC at NCAR:
Strategy and State of Play"
Rich Loft
NCAR
10:30am Break
11:00am "CMIP6 data infrastructure at DKRZ"
Stephan Kindermann
German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)
11:30am Vendor- ARM
"Applications performance on Arm HPC architecture"
Phil Ridley
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Vendor- NVIDIA
"GPU Benefits for Applications in Weather and Climate"
Stan Posey and David Hall
2:00pm "Evolving HPC and application design toward a couple data
assimilation system at NASA suitable for emerging
Exascale platforms"
William Putman
NASA
2:30pm "ESiWACE, the Center of Excellence in Simulation of
Weather and Climate in Europe"
Joachim Biercamp
DKRZ
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Vendor- Intel
“Insight into Intel innovations that will bring
enhancement for HPC applications”
Andrea Luiselli
4:00pm "Insights into Cloud Technologies and Machine Learning
for Scientific Data"
Sara Graves
University of Alabama, Huntsville
4:30pm "Toward Global Mesoscale Climate Prediction"
James Kinter
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
5:00pm Adjourn until Banquet
7:00pm Banquet
8:00am Welcome Coffee
9:00am "Machine Learning at the Met Office"
Niall Robinson
UK Met Office Informatics Lab
9:30am "E3SM Data Management and Publication"
Rick Wagner
Globus
10:00am "The Future of Scientific Observation: Artificial
Intelligence at the Edge"
Pete Beckman
Argonne National Laboratory
10:30am Break
11:00am "NCAR Plan for Science at Scale"
Jeff de La Beaujardiere
NCAR
11:30am "New Frontiers in CI and Computing for Climate and
Weather Applications and How They Relate to the NSF
Ten Big Ideas"
Subashree Mishra
U.S. National Science Foundation
12:00pm Lunch
1:30pm "The Current Status of High Performance Computing and
CMIP6 at CMA"
Dr. Wang Bin
National Meteorological Information Centre, CMA
2:00pm "NCAR's Next Procurement: Meeting User's Reliability and
Storage Demands"
David Hart
NCAR
2:30pm "Preliminary Study Result of Purpose Build
Computing for Weather and Climate Models"
Tsengdar Lee
NASA
3:00pm Concluding Remarks/Anke Kamrath
3:30pm Farewell Reception