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COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE (CES)

An Overview

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R&D in Computer, Life, Earth and

Engineering Sciences

Supercomputing services

to Spanish and EU researchers

PhD programme, technology transfer, public engagement

BSC-CNS

OBJECTIVES

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACIÓN

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Help to build knowledge where experiments are impossible or not affordable

Numerical Simulation &

Big Data Analysis

THE EVOLUTION OF THE RESEARCH PARADIGM

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MARENOSTRUM 1-4

2004

2006

2012

2017

42.3 Tflops

1st Europe / 4th World

New technologies

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MareNostrum 1

1.1 Pflops

12th Europe / 36th World

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MareNostrum 3

11.1 Pflops

2nd Europe / 13th World

New technologies

MareNostrum 4

94.2 Tflops

1st Europe / 5th World

New technologies

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MareNostrum 2

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General Purpose Cluster 11.15 Pflops (1-07-2017)

CTE1-P9+Volta 1.57 Pflops (1-03-2018)

CTE2-Arm V8 0.65 Pflops (12-2019)

CTE3-AMD: 0.52 Pflops (12-2019)

Total peak performance: 13-9 Pflops

MARENOSTRUM 4

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EUROHPC JOINT UNDERTAKING

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“A new legal and funding structure – the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking – shall acquire, build and deploy across Europe a world-class High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure.

It will also support a research and innovation programme to develop the technologies and machines (hardware) as well as the applications (software) that would run on these supercomputers.”

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EuroHPC-Ju members:

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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland 

and Turkey

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THE MARENOSTRUM 5

General Purpose Cluster:

40.1 Pflops

Accelerated partition: 175.3 Pflops

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MISSION OF THE BSC SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENTS

To influence the way machines are built, programmed and used: programming models, performance tools, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence , computer architecture, energy efficiency

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To develop and implement global and regional state-of-the-art models for short-term air quality forecast and long-term climate applications

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To understand living organisms by means of theoretical and computational methods (molecular modeling, genomics, proteomics)

To develop scientific and engineering software to efficiently exploit super-computing capabilities (biomedical, geophysics, atmospheric, energy, social and economic simulations)

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Computer

Sciences

Earth Sciences

Life

Sciences

CASE

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EARTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

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Environmental modelling and forecasting using process-based and artificial intelligence models, with a particular focus on weather, climate and air quality. This includes transferring solutions to support the main societal environmental challenges through data applications

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Computational Earth Science (CES)

Climate Variability and Change (CVC)

Atmospheric Composition (AC)

Earth System Services (ESS)

Global Health Resilience (GHR)

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CES

AC

CVC

ESS

GHR

EARTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

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Environmental modelling and forecasting using process-based and artificial intelligence models, with a particular focus on weather, climate and air quality. This includes transferring solutions to support the main societal environmental challenges through data applications.

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    • ~250 people
    • Funding from EC, Copernicus, private sector, ESA, Spanish and regional governments
    • 4 ICREA, close link to local universities

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COMPUTATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE (CES)

Francesca Macchia

TEAM LEADER

Gilbert Montané

TEAM LEADER

TEAM LEADER

MODELS & WORKFLOWS TEAM (MWT)

Pierre A. Bretonnière

TEAM LEADER

Francesco Benincasa

TEAM LEADER

DATA & DIAGNOSTICS TEAM (DDT)

Yaquelin Samper

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

Mario Acosta

GROUP LEADER

Miguel Castrillo

GROUP LEADER

Xavier Yepes

TEAM LEADER

Amanda Duarte

TEAM LEADER

PERFORMANCE TEAM (PT)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TEAM (AIT)

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DATA AND DIAGNOSTICS

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SERVICES

TOOLS

Data management and curation

Data dissemination

Data diagnostics

Data analysis

Data visualization

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ESGF, THREDDS,

ESMVal, Earthdiags

Rtools, Providentia,

Shiny, Mapgenerator, SUNSET

DATA AND DIAGNOSTICS

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DATA AND DIAGNOSTICS

Collaborating on different projects

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MODELS AND WORKFLOWS

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MODELS

WORKFLOWS

Development and deployment of Earth science models in close collaboration with the scientific groups

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Research and development of methodologies and tools that allow running scientific model workflows in an reproducible and efficient way

MODELS AND WORKFLOWS

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MODELS AND WORKFLOWS

Initiatives and centers powered by BSC-ES workflow solutions

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PERFORMANCE TEAM

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PERFORMANCE TEAM

    • Knowledge about:
      • The mathematical and computational aspects of Earth System Applications
      • The HPC requirements for Earth System Applications
    • Research on HPC methods that are specifically used by Earth System Applications

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Weather and Climate Science

CES- Performance Team

Computer Science

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PERFORMANCE TEAM

    • Necessary for the refactoring of numerical codes
      • Computational performance analysis and optimization
      • New algorithms for next-gen HPC platforms (exascale)
    • Collaborating with several institutions on different projects

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

    • Climate emergency models
    • Extreme climate event prediction
    • Emulators of environmental components
    • Earth Digital Twins
      • Destination Earth & Digital Twin Ocean
      • LLMs for climate adaptation

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Collaborating on different projects

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WORK WITH US!

*Job Opportunities in the Earth Science Department

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