Scientific Calendar Event



Description
During this hands-on workshop, IT/HPC admins and climate change scientists will be trained on how to make effectively operational and remotely accessible HPC technology, and how to use the computational resources of operational HPC systems in West Africa (WA) to compute climate models and run simulations. This activity will also ease the creation of HPC community in WA.
 
Topics:
  • HPC IMPORTANCE, DESIGN, PURCHASE, AND INSTALLATION PROCESSES: e.g. HPC Facilities for scientific challenges in Climate modeling
  • HPC TECHNOLOGY & ADMINISTRATION: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture and programming, Raking and building HPC clusters
  • HPC NETWORK AND SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION / MANAGEMENT: e.g. HPC batch queue systems, storage, data formats (HDFS/NETCDF)
  • HPC SYSTEM COMMON USAGE AND OPERATIONS: e.g. Hands-on work on compiling software and submit jobs on HPC clusters, Hands-on work on REGCM, WRF
  • NETWORKING FOR FUTURE OPERATIONALISATION AND COLLABORATION OF EXISTING HPC CENTRES
  • KEYNOTES ON ADDRESSING SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES IN CLIMATE SCIENCES
  • INVITED TALKS FROM CHPC, EAIFR, NiMET, Univ of Cocody

Resource Persons:
K. ADEWARA, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
V. AJAYI, FUTA, Nigeria
A. AKINTOMIDE, University of Georgia, USA
S. BAMBA, AIMS, Rwanda
B. DIALLO, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
U. GARTERNICHT, DKRZ, Germany
I. GIROTTO, ICTP, Italy
G. GIULIANI, ICTP, Italy
J. GOGWIM, University of Jos, Nigeria
K. HACKMAN, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
T. LUDWIG, DKRZ, Germany
S. MEDA, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
K. OGUNJOBI, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
C. ONIME, ICTP, Italy
E. PEDANOU, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
S. SALACK, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
M. SAVADOGO, WASCAL, Ghana
W. SAVADOGO, University of Augsburg, Germany
B. SINSIN, WASCAL-SAC, Benin
M. SULE, ICTP, Italy
H. THIEMANN, DKRZ, Germany


Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries.
There is no registration fee.

Go to day
  • Tuesday, 3 May 2022
    • 08:00 - 10:00 Workshop Opening: Relevance of HPC and Climate Modeling
      Time zone: You can choose your time zone (in place of Europe/Rome) on the top right of the page and the programme time will be modified accordingly.
      • 08:00 Registration 1h0'
      • 09:00 Opening Remarks by the Executive Director of WASCAL 30'
      • 09:30 Opening Remarks by ICTP Senior Coordinator Programmes 30'
        Speaker: Ralf KAISER (ICTP, Italy)
    • 10:00 - 16:00
      • 10:00 Key-note: Overview of Facilities for Scientific Production Environment in Climate Modeling 1h0'
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Key-note: Broad Overview of Scientific Challenges in Climate Modeling 30'
        ICTP (online)
      • 12:00 Overview of HPC & HPC @ WASCAL 30'
        Speaker: Kehinde OGUNJOBI (WASCAL, Burkina Faso)
      • 12:30 Overview of HPC & HPC @ ICTP 30'
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 14:00 Overview of HPC & HPC @ SASSCAL 30'
        SASSCAL (online)
      • 14:30 Overview of HPC & HPC @ ICPAC 30'
        ICPAC (online)
      • 15:00 Overview of HPC & HPC @ FCFA 30'
        FCFA (online)
      • 15:30 Overview of HPC & HPC @ ACPC 30'
        ACPC (online)
  • Wednesday, 4 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 11:30 From Desktops Computers to HPC Clusters & Supercomputers
      • 09:00 Computer Architectures and Programming Paradigms for HPC 1h0'
        Speaker: Ivan GIROTTO (ICTP, Italy)
      • 10:00 Raking and Building Clusters (+Power and UPS) 1h0'
        Speaker: Joel GOGWIM (University of Jos, Nigeria), Clement ONIME (ICTP, Italy)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 14:00 Key Note Session
      • 11:30 Speakers Introduction 10'
      • 11:40 Regional Climate Model 40'
        (online)
        Speaker: Graziano GIULIANO (ICTP, Italy)
      • 12:20 Experience from a Scientists in Installing and Managing a Small HPC Cluster 40'
        EAIFR (online)
        Speaker: Omololu AKIN-OJO (EAIFR)
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Hands-on: Software Environment of HPC, How to Compile, How to Submit Jobs 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
        Speaker: Ivan GIROTTO (ICTP, Italy)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Introduction in Networking (DNS, DHPC, etc...) 1h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
        Speaker: Kanmi ADEWARA (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria), Joel GOGWIM (University of Jos, Nigeria)
      • 15:00 Networking for HPC (IPMI, etc..) 1h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
        Speaker: Clement ONIME (ICTP, Italy), Kanmi ADEWARA (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
  • Thursday, 5 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 11:30 HPC Usage and Data Formats for Climate Sciences
      • 09:00 User management 1h0'
        Speaker: Mary-Jane SULE (ICTP, Italy)
      • 10:00 State-of-art Central Computing Resources at University of Abidjan 1h0'
        (online)
        Speaker: Issa TRAORE (Director of Computer Center, University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 14:00 Key Note Session
      • 11:30 Speakers Introduction 10'
      • 11:40 TBD 40'
        Speaker: Sylla BAMBA (AIMS, Rwanda)
      • 12:20 Hands-on Lab sessions 40'
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Data Format (HDF5/NETCDF) 1h0'
        WASCAL
        Speaker: Graziano GIULIANI (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:00 Lab on HDF5/NetCDF Format 1h0'
        WASCAL
        Speaker: Graziano GIULIANI (ICTP, Italy)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 HPC Storage 1h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
      • 15:00 File Systems (NFS/parallel File Systems) 1h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
  • Friday, 6 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      • 09:00 Hands-on tutorials for both tracks 2h0'
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Hands-on tutorials for both tracks 50'
      • 12:20 Computational climate science and the installation at DKRZ 40'
        Speaker: Thomas LUDWIG (DKRZ, Germany)
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00
      • 14:00 RegCM (Tutorial): Components of Real Application for Regional Climate Modeling 1h0'
        WASCAL
        Speaker: Graziano GIULIANI (ICTP, Italy)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Hands-on: Building Cluster 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
  • Monday, 9 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 11:30 HPC Best Practices and Data Management
      • 09:00 Research Data Management (RDM) 1h0'
        Speakers from CODATA RDA Summer School 2021 
      • 10:00 Bitwise Reproducibility and Machine Learning 1h0'
        Speaker: Thomas LUDWIG (DKRZ, Germany)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 14:00 Key Note Session
      • 11:30 Speakers Introduction 10'
      • 11:40 Trends in Data Management for Climate Science3 40'
        Speaker: Hannes THIEMANN (DKRZ, Germany)
      • 12:20 Seasonal Extreme Precipitation over the United States in Earth System Models: Investigating the Added Value of High Resolution and Super-parameterized E3SM 40'
        Speaker: Akintomide AKINSMOLA
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 RegCM (Tutorial): Components of Real Application for Regional Climate Modeling 2h0'
        WASCAL
        Speaker: Graziano GIULIANI (ICTP, Italy)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Hands-on: Building Cluster 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
  • Tuesday, 10 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 11:30 Parallel Computing and Monitoring on HPC Facilities & REGCM Tutorial
      • 09:00 What's New in the AR6 IPCC WGI. The New Dimension of the Regional Based Climate Change Assessment 1h0'
        Speaker: Erika Coppola (ICTP, Italy)
      • 10:00 Lab sessions 1h0'
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 14:00 Key Note Session
      • 11:30 Speakers Introduction 10'
      • 11:40 Lab sessions 1h20'
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 RegCM (Tutorial): Components of Real Application for Regional Climate Modeling 2h0'
        WASCAL
        Speaker: Graziano GIULIANI (ICTP, Italy)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Hands-on: Building Cluster 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
  • Wednesday, 11 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 11:30 Best Practices in Acquisition of HPC Facilities, WRF Tutorial
      • 09:00 Procurement & Purchase of Equipment: Best Practices 1h0'
        Speaker: Olakanmi ADEWARA, Joel GOGWIN (University of Jos, Nigeria)
      • 10:00 Workshop/Group Discussions on Procurement, Purchasing and Documentation 1h0'
        ALL Participants
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 14:00 Key Note Session
      • 11:30 Speakers Introduction 10'
      • 11:40 Lab sessions 40'
      • 12:20 Burkina Faso’s National Meteorological Agency 40'
        Speaker: Joel ZOUNGRANA (Head, National Meteorological Agency, Burkina Faso)
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 RegCM (Tutorial): Components of Real Application for Regional Climate Modeling 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
        Speaker: Windmanagda SAVADOGO (University of Augsburg, Germany)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Hands-on: Building Cluster 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
  • Thursday, 12 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 11:30
      • 09:00 Hands-on Tutorials for Both Tracks 2h0'
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 14:00
      • 11:30 Hands-on Tutorials for Both Tracks 1h30'
        WASCAL/ICTP
      • 13:00 Lunch 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 RegCM (Tutorial): Components of Real Application for Regional Climate Modeling 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
        Speaker: Vincent AJAYI (FUTA, Nigeria)
    • 14:00 - 16:00
      • 14:00 Hands-on: Building Cluster 2h0'
        ICTP team/WASCAL
  • Friday, 13 May 2022
    • 09:00 - 13:00 Neworking and Future Work
      • 09:00 Discussions on Future Editions and Continuous Collaboration 50'
        Creation of Communities of Practice for HPC Admins and HPC Users
      • 09:50 Recommendations for Future Editions and Continuous Collaboration 25'
        Creation of Communities of Practice for HPC Admins and HPC
        users
      • 10:15 Closing Ceremony 1h45'
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 1h0'