BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260706T135527Z UID:17584ea1-ae64-4144-b4df-0e91f61da0ee DTSTART:20180704T073000Z DTEND:20180704T143000Z DESCRIPTION:Meteorological and climate modelling\n\n04 July 2018\n\nLearnin g Outcome\n\nAfter the course the participants should be able to efficient ly use WRF and other such applications for climate modelling or weather pr ediction. They should be able to customise the application configuration f iles based on their needs and tune the model for most efficient performanc e.\n\nPrerequisites\n\nThe course addresses participants who are familiar with the C/C++/Fortran programming languages and have working experience w ith the Linux operating system and the use of the command line. Experience with parallel programming and background in Climate/Meteorological modell ing is desirable. \n\nBring your own laptop in order to be able to partici pate in the training hands on. Hands on work will be done in pairs so if y ou don’t have a laptop you might work with a colleague. \n\nCourse langu age is English.\n\nRegistration\n\nThe maximum number of participants is 2 5. \n\nRegistrations will be evaluated on a first-come\, first-served basi s. GRNET is responsible for the selection of the participants on the basis of the training requirements and the technical skills of the candidates. GRNET will also seek to guarantee the maximum possible geographical cover age with the participation of candidates from many countries.\n\nVenue\n\n GRNET headquarters\n\nAddress: 2nd  Floor\, 7\, Kifisias Av. GR 115 23 At hens\n\nInformation on how to reach GRNET headquarters ia available on GRN ET website: https://grnet.gr/en/contact-us/  \n\nAccommodation options n ear GRNET can be found at: https://grnet.gr/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/20 15/11/Hotels-near-GRNET-en.pdf\n\nARIS - System Information\n\nARIS is the name of the Greek supercomputer\, deployed and operated by GRNET (Greek R esearch and Technology Network) in Athens. ARIS consists of 532 computatio nal nodes seperated in four “islands” as listed here:\n\n\n 426 thin n odes: Regular compute nodes without accelerator.\n \n \n 44 gpu nodes: “ 2 x NVIDIA Tesla k40m” accelerated nodes.\n \n \n 18 phi nodes: “2 x I NTEL Xeon Phi 7120p” accelerated nodes.\n \n \n 44 fat nodes: Fat comput e nodes have larger number of cores and memory per core than a thin node.\ n \nAll the nodes are connected via Infiniband network and share 2PB GPFS storage.The infrastructure also has an IBM TS3500 library of maximum stora ge capacity of about 6 PB. Access to the system is provided by two login n odes. \n\nAbout Tutors\n\nDr. Dellis (Male) holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry (19 90) and PhD in Computational Chemistry (1995) from the National and Kapodi strian University of Athens\, Greece. He has extensive HPC and grid comput ing experience. He was using HPC systems in computational chemistry resear ch projects on fz-juelich machines (2003-2005). He received an HPC-Europa grant on BSC (2009). In EGEE/EGI projects he acted as application support and VO software manager for SEE VO\, grid sites administrator (HG-02\, GR- 06)\, NGI_GRNET support staff (2008-2014). In PRACE 1IP/2IP/3IP/4IP/5IP he was involved in benchmarking tasks either as group member or as BCO (2010 -2017). Currently he holds the position of “Senior HPC Applications Supp ort Engineer” at GRNET S.A. where he is responsible for activities relat ed to user consultations\, porting\, optimization and running HPC applicat ions at national and international resources.\n\nDr. Theodore M. Giannaros (male)\, born in 1982\, holds a PhD in Atmospheric Physics (Aristotle Uni versity of Thessaloniki\, 2013). In 2014\, he joined the National Observat ory of Athens (NOA) where he currently acts as a post-doc researcher. His research interests and expertise include numerical modeling focusing prima rily on severe weather\, urban meteorology and climatology\, focusing on t he study of the urban heat island effect\, human biometeorology\, with emp hasis on the evaluation of the thermal bioclimate\, and regional climate m odeling. He has published 22 papers in international peer-review scientifi c journals. His citation report includes 225 citations and an h-index of 8 . Dr. Giannaros has worked extensively with the WRF and MM5 meteorological models\, and the RayMan micro-scale model. He is experienced in several p rogramming and scripting languages (Fortran\, Python\, GDAL\, NCO\, CDO\, Bash)\, and he is proficient in using geographic information systems (ArcG IS\, Quantum GIS).\n\nStergios Kartsios was born in 1987 and received his B.Sc. in Physics and his M.Sc. in Meteorology and Climatology from the Ari stotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Meteorology and Climatology where he works as a research assistant. He is using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in a number of applications such\, as an operational forecasting tool at his Department\, as a regional climate model in the framework of EURO-CORDEX from mesoscal e to convective permitting simulations and as a research tool for very hig h-resolution simulations over Greece. He evaluates model performance again st multiple surface observations\, radar and satellite data. He also uses the WRF-SFIRE model to investigate atmosphere-fire interactions. He has pa rticipated in three research programes and has 3 publications in peer-revi ew journals. He has also working experience as junior forecaster in the pr ivate sector. Mr. Kartsios is experienced in a number of programming langu ages and shell scripting\, while he was presenter and instractor in a numb er of whorkshops and conferences.\n\nDr Aristeidis Sotiropoulos received h is BSc in Computer Science in 1998 from the University of Crete\, Greece a nd his PhD in Parallel Processing and Cluster Computing in 2004 from the N ational Technical University of Athens\, Greece. His interests mainly focu s on the fields of Large Scale Computing &\; Storage Systems\, System S oftware for Scalable High Speed Interconnects for Computer Clusters and Ad vanced Microprocessor Architectures. He has published several scientific p apers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has receive d the IEEE IPDPS 2001 best paper award for the paper "Minimizing Completio n Time for Loop Tiling with Computation and Communication Overlapping". He has worked in several European and National R&\;D programs in the fiel d of High Performance Computing\, Grid Computing\, Cloud Computing and Sto rage. In 2013\, he was appointed as the Head of Operations and Financial M anagement Services\, in charge of 15 people. Currently\, he is managing EC projects at GRNET SA\, the Greek NREN responsible for the provision of ad vanced e-infrastructure services to the Greek Academic and Research Commun ity.\n\nAbout GRNET\n\nGRNET provides Internet connectivity\, high-quality e-Infrastructures and advanced services to the Greek Educational\, Academ ic and Research community.\n\nThrough its high-speed\, high-capacity infra structure that spans across the entire country\, GRNET interconnects more than 150 institutions\, including all universities and technological insti tutions\, as well as many research institutes and the public Greek School Network.\n\nGRNET operates the National High Performance Computing system (a Tier-1 in the European HPC ecosystem) and offers user and application s upport services\, that provide Greek scientists with the computing infrast ructure and expertise they need for their research enabling them to perfor m large scale simulations.\n\nGRNET offers innovative IaaS cloud computing services to the Greek and global research &\; education communities: “ ~okeanos” and “okeanos global” allow users to create multi-layer virtual infrastructure and instantiate virtual computing machines\, local networks to interconnect them\, and a reliable storage space within secon ds\, with few\, simple mouse clicks.\n\nGRNET aims at contributing towards Greece’s Digital Convergence with the EU\, by supporting the developmen t and encouraging the use of e-Infrastructures and services. The right and timely planning strategies\, together with the long experience and know-h ow of its people\, guarantee the continuation and enhancement of GRNET’s successful course.\n\nGreek Research and Technology Network – Networkin g Reserach and Education:\n\nwww.grnet.gr\, hpc.grnet.gr\n\nhttps://events .prace-ri.eu/event/745/ SUMMARY:Meteorological and climate modelling @GRNET URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/745/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR