2020 MultiCore 10 Workshop

MultiCore 10 was held virtually the week of September 28, 2020 and was hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) which is located in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Introduction

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for open discussion to better understand the application of new high performance computing technologies for the next generation of weather, climate, and earth-system models. The new generation of High Performance Computer (HPC) architectures has diverse heterogeneous architectures and they present significant challenges to the community working on these models.

Workshop Goals

The workshop primary goals are:

• Provide a forum to present experiences and lessons learned from development of weather and climate models on these platforms.
• Create a community of developers to collect and enunciate requirements for next-generation HPC programming models, tools, systems, and hardware.
• Exchange information and ideas on topics including:
  • Techniques for programming, performance analysis and optimization and I/O strategies on these platforms.
  • Language, library, and directive based approaches for programming earth system applications. 
  • Achieving performance portability across diverse heterogeneous architectures
  • Handling of multiple or heterogeneous memory on both CPU and GPU 
  • Use of mixed-precision 
  • Utilization of non-volatile on-node storage for complex workflows and data analysis
  • Advancements in machine and deep learning techniques for physics code surrogates, data analysis and assimilation.
• Entrain student and early career computational scientists into HPC for earth system applications.

Workshop Program

You can see the full program here. 

Venue

The workshop was hosted virtually by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) which is located in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Workshop Program Coordinators:

John Dennis (NCAR): dennis@ucar.edu

Richard Loft (NCAR): loft@ucar.edu

Ilene Carpenter (HPE): ilene.carpenter@hpe.com

Bryan Flynt (ESRL): bryan.flynt@noaa.gov

Jed Brown (U. Colorado): jed.brown@colorado.edu

Katherine Evans (ORNL): evanskj@ornl.gov

Hans Johansen (LBL): hjohansen@lbl.gov

Matthew Norman (ORNL): normanmr@ornl.gov

Workshop Administrator:

Taysia Peterson: taysia@ucar.edu

Code of Conduct

UCAR and NCAR are committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all participants in any conference, workshop, field project or project hosted or managed by UCAR, no matter what role they play or their background. This includes respectful treatment of everyone regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, age, body size, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, level of experience, political affiliation, veteran status, pregnancy, genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected under state or federal law. 

All participants (and guests) are required to abide by this Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct is adapted from the one adopted by AGU, complies with the new directive from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and applies to all UCAR-related events, including those sponsored by organizations other than UCAR but held in conjunction with UCAR events, in any location throughout the world. 

The full Code of Conduct document can be found here.

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