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| ===== Description of the group ===== | ===== Description of the group ===== | ||
| - | The Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group is a multidisciplinary team with different IT profiles that interacts closely with all the other groups of the Earth Sciences Department. The group provides help and guidance to the scientists with the technical issues relating to their work and develops a framework for the most efficient use of HPC resources. In order to improve the use of the variety of computing resources available at the BSC and in other HPC institutions, a solid software development, profiling | + | The Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group is a multidisciplinary team within |
| + | CES brings together computer scientists and engineers who work closely with other scientific teams to ensure efficient, scalable, and sustainable use of Information Technology (IT) resources, with a special focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC). The group’s mission is to enable and accelerate scientific discovery in Earth system modelling, atmospheric processes, ocean information systems, and air quality studies through advanced computing, data management, and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. | ||
| - | One of the common scopes of the group is the guidance | + | ===== Main Objectives ===== |
| - | | + | The group’s activities focus on the following areas: |
| - | * Provide | + | * **Efficient |
| - | * Develop | + | |
| + | * **Software optimization and HPC adaptation: | ||
| - | The group is led by Mario Acosta | + | * **Data management |
| - | In this section, one can find, similarly to the " | + | * **Computational workflows: |
| - | {{ :working_groups: | + | * **Scientific software development:** Design, implement, and maintain efficient, portable, and well-documented tools for data processing, diagnostics, |
| - | {{ :working_groups: | + | * **IT infrastructure:** Maintain an IT infrastructure that ensures an efficient working environment for the development of the BSC-ES research and services, including the provision of sufficient storage to reduce this specific vulnerability of the department. |
| + | * **Good practices and collaborative workflows: | ||
| + | * **Training and technical support:** Deliver continuous training and technical assistance to researchers and IT staff to ensure effective and sustainable use of computational resources and tools. | ||
| - | ==== Models | + | * **Integration of Artificial Intelligence: |
| - | **Current members:** Miguel Castrillo (team leader), Francesca Macchia (team leader), Mario Acosta, Miriam Olid, Carles Tena, Gilbert Montané, Daniel Beltrán, Eric Ferrer, Manuel Giménez de Castro, Genis Bonet, Francesc Roura Adserias, Aina Gaya Àvila, Pablo Goitia González, Naiara Alonso Montes, Alejandro García López, Amirpasha Mozaffari, Artur Viñas Ferran, Bruno De Paula Kinoshita, Carmen Piñero Megías, Edgar Garriga Nogales, Enric Millan Iglesias, Ivan Alsina Ferrer, Leo Arriola i Meikle, Luiggi Gianpere Tenorio Ku. | + | |
| + | ===== Organisation and Leadership ===== | ||
| - | + | The CES group is led by** Mario Acosta** and **Miguel Castrillo**, | |
| - | **Purpose: Development of HPC user-friendly software framework | + | {{ : |
| + | ===== Teams ===== | ||
| + | * [[Artificial Intelligence Team (AIT)]] | ||
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| + | ===== Units ===== | ||
| + | * [[Climate Model Development and HPC Adaptation]] | ||
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| + | * [[climate_model_development_and_hpc_adaptation# | ||
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| + | * [[climate_model_development_and_hpc_adaptation# | ||
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| - | **Tasks:** | ||
| - | * //Support the development of atmospheric research software and contribute to its maintenance// | + | ===== Group Members ===== |
| - | * Interact with model developers and HPC support teams to develop and deploy a software stack to run generic Earth system models on a wide range of HPC facilities. | + | |
| - | * // Maintain and improve operational systems // | + | |
| - | * Collaborate with the other three groups to satisfy their needs for the development and efficient running, including the design of appropriate workflows, of the BSC-ES operational air quality, weather and climate forecast systems. | + | |
| + | * [[List of Group Members]] | ||
| - | **Projects | + | ==== PhD Students ==== |
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| - | ==== Performance team ==== | ||
| - | **Current members:** Xavier Yepes (team leader), Mario Acosta, Miguel Castrillo, Sergi Palomas, Christian Guzman, Iria Ayan, Carlos Peña, Oscar Michel, Kai Keller, Roc Salvardor, Victor Correal, Alexey Medvedev. | ||
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| - | **Purpose: Efficient use of the computational resources by the research groups** | ||
| - | **Tasks:** | ||
| - | * //Provide HPC Services such as performance analysis to identify bottlenecks and apply optimizations // | ||
| - | * Collaborate with other BSC departments, | ||
| - | * // Research on new computational methods to apply on Earth Sciences models // | ||
| - | * Collaborate with external Earth system modelling teams to implement and test new computational methods that allow the use of new platforms such as heterogeneous architectures. | ||
| - | **Projects and softwares developed: | ||
| - | *[[https:// | ||
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| - | ==== Data and Diagnostics Team ==== | + | ===== Research Outputs, Dissemination |
| + | In this section, one can find [[: | ||
| + | ==== Software and Projects ===== | ||
| - | **Current members:** Francesco Benincasa, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière (team leaders), Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, Margarida Samsó, Daniel Trujillo, Giulia Carella, Elliott Rose, Amanda Duarte, Marvin Axness, Supriyo Ghosh, Stamen Miroslavov, Santiago Ramírez, Alba Vilanova Cortezón, Paula Serrano Sierra. | ||
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| - | **Purpose: Provision | + | | [[https:// |
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| - | **Tasks:** | + | [[https:// |
| - | * //Develop, manage | + | ==== Innovation Actions |
| - | * Develop, manage and maintain a common data service framework to collect, standardize and distribute climate and atmospheric data to both internal departmental and external users of the research and services community. Setting up an ESGF Data-Node is a priority of the team to give international visibility to the centre. | + | |
| - | * Implement locally and contribute to the development of international standards for data storage and exchange, with special interest in data in NetCDF and GRIB formats. | + | |
| - | * Contribute to external data quality checking projects (eg Copernicus C3S_512) | + | |
| - | * //Deploy an infrastructure ready to overcome the Big Data challenge in Earth sciences | ||
| - | * Improve the capability for processing Big Data volumes for the analysis of Earth system simulation using the latest technologies both at hardware and software levels. | ||
| - | * Improve the outcome to society of user-friendly data visualization products. | ||
| - | * Study new approaches to address the I/O challenges of the new generation of high-resolution, | ||
| - | * In this page, you can find the current material related to [[: | ||
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| - | * New developments on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have great potential for the exploitation and modelling of the ever-increasing stream of geospatial data. Therefore, a new research line has been started within CES to develop new Machine Learning models (specially based on Deep Neural Networks) for Earth Sciences. All the information can be found here ([[: | ||
| + | ^ Type ^ Role of CES ^ Coordinator and Contact | ||
| + | |Contract with public administration AEMET-[[https:// | ||
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| + | | Industrial collaboration with [[https:// | ||
| - | **Projects and softwares developed: | ||
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| - | * SDS-WAS/ | ||
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| - | * ESGF Node: [[https:// | ||
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| - | ===== Group software projects ===== | ||
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| - | ===== Outcomes of the CES meetings ===== | ||
| - | Every month the CES group meets and each group presents the activities carried on (updated in the [[ https:// | + | ==== Publications ==== |
| - | The following document contains | + | See peer publications |
| - | In the CES group, we are not only computer guys and girls, we are also cooks! | + | |
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| + | ==== Other Publications ==== | ||
| + | See other publications [[https:// | ||
| - | ===== Publications ===== | ||
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| - | ==== Posters ==== | ||
| - | * Supercomputing 2015, Austin, Texas, 15 - 20 November 2015, Optimization of an Ocean Model Using Performance Tools [[http:// | ||
| - | * EGU General Assembly 2017 (EGU2017), Vienna, Austria, 24-28 April 2017, Simulation-based performance analysis of EC-Earth 3.2.0 using Dimemas {{library: | ||
| - | * OpenIFS workshop 2017, Trieste, Italy, 5-9 June 2017, Performance study of OpenIFS: towards a more efficiently scalable model {{: | ||
| - | ==== Technical Memoranda ==== | ||
| - | * Tintó Prims, O., M. Castrillo, K. Serradell , O. Mula-Valls and F.J. Doblas-Reyes (2015). Optimization of an ocean model using performance tools.{{library: | ||
| - | * Basart, S., K. Serradell and J.M. Baldasano (2015). User's guide of the BSC-DREAM8b model{{library: | ||
| - | * Yepes-Arbós, | ||
| - | * Acosta, M.C., X. Yepes-Arbós, | ||
| - | * Yepes-Arbós, | ||
| - | * Yepes-Arbós, | ||
| - | ===== Presentations ===== | ||
| - | - Computational Earth Sciences generic presentation (February 2020) {{ :working_groups: | + | ==== Posters ==== |
| + | See posters [[https://earth.bsc.es/ | ||
| + | ==== Invited Talks ==== | ||
| + | See information about the invited talks [[https:// | ||
| - | ===== Current members ===== | ||
| - | ==== Mario Acosta ==== | ||
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| - | Postdoctoral Researcher \\ | + | ==== Technical Memoranda ==== |
| - | Interests: HPC performance, | + | See the technical memoranda |
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| - | Mario Acosta is a postdoctoral researcher and the leader of the Performance Team in the Computational group at the BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Earth Science Department. He obtained his PhD from University of Granada (Spain) in 2015, on High Performance Computing applied to Earth System Modeling. This expertise includes wide knowledge in numerical models (governing equations, numerical algorithms and computational implementation) and how to adapt them efficiently to actual and new High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. He is working in the HPC WP of ESiWACE2, ESCAPE2 and INMERSE and the leader of the HPC WP of IS-ENES3 as BSC PI. Moreover, he is also the PI of a research project with KNMI related to HPC of the model Harmonie-Arome. He is author of 8 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He presented his work at 14 congresses and workshops, and reviewed some manuscripts for peer-review journals. He is or has been the supervisor of two PhD students and three master students and several degree students, who are developing theses in the HPC topic. | + | ==== Events and Visits |
| - | ==== Francesco Benincasa | + | See events |
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| - | Software Engineer \\ | + | |
| - | Interests: Software development, | + | |
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| - | Francesco Benincasa holds a Master Degree in " | + | |
| - | from the "Alma Mater Studiorum - Bologna University" | + | |
| - | ==== Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière ==== | ||
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| - | Software Engineer \\ | ||
| - | Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière holds a Master Degree in Mathematical and Physical Engineering (Matmeca engineering school, Bordeaux, France, 2009). He has worked in CERFACS (Toulouse, France), Institut Català de Ciencies del Clima (IC3, Barcelona, Spain) and BSC, in data management and climate software | ||
| - | Interests: Data management, Big Data | ||
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| - | ==== Miguel Castrillo ==== | ||
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| - | Computational Engineer, Software Analyst | ||
| - | Interests: HPC performance, | + | ===== Templates and Resources ===== |
| + | ==== Presentations ==== | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
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| - | Contact: miguel.castrillo@bsc.es, | + | ==== Oboarding Guide ==== |
| + | * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkcjizXVHKc53Qqz2JWbGiysyVgbfCVhG1wMQULgDFg/ | ||
| - | Miguel Castrillo is co-leader of the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He holds an MSc in Computer Science, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, | + | ==== PDPs==== |
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| - | Miguel' | + | ==== Consent forms ==== |
| - | He's currently involved in several award-winning initiatives where he leads different work packages, including Destination Earth Climate DT, EDITO Model Lab, EERIE, ESiWACE3, GLORIA | + | Standardized informed consent templates have been developed to be used across all projects |
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| - | ==== Gilbert Montané Pinto ==== | + | ^ Template |
| - | {{:working_groups:members: | + | | Informed Consent Form – Earth Sciences |
| - | Research Engineer\\ | + | | Informed Consent Form – Online Version |
| - | Interests: Meteorology, | + | | Informed Consent – Full Information Notice |
| - | Contact: [[gilbert.montane@bsc.es|gilbert.montane@bsc.es]] | + | |
| - | Gilbert holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), a MSc in Project Management from the Ramón Llull University (La Salle, URL) and a Master' | + | ==== GDPR compliance check list ==== |
| - | ---- | + | The Legal, DPO, and COMSEG teams have prepared a form that must be completed by the Principal Investigator (PI) for any new project or proposal involving personal or sensitive data. This includes anonymized, pseudonymized, |
| + | The completed form must be submitted to COMSEG at comseg@bsc.es. Approval from both COMSEG and the DPO is mandatory before any project can begin. No project implementation can start without their express approval. Once the form has been approved by COMSEG and the DPO, the PI must send it to the Legal team, along with a request for the review of the corresponding legal documentation. | ||
| - | ==== Miriam Olid ==== | + | ^ Template |
| - | {{:working_groups: | + | | GDPR Form | Form that must be completed by the Principal Investigator (PI) for any new project or proposal involving personal or sensitive data. | {{https://intranet.bsc.es/ |
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| - | Interests: Atmospheric Pollution, Photochemical models, Emissions modelling | + | |
| - | Short bio: Bachelor in Environmental Science by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Master in Meteorology by the Universitat of Barcelona (UB). She started to work as a research technician in the Deparment of Metorology of the UB. One of her main tasks was to participate in the development and maintenance of an air quality modelling system based on a meteorological model, an emission model and a photochemical model. This system, called ARAMIS, is currently working in operational. Besides, she participated in the development and implementation of the emission model included in HIREM from the methodology described by EMEP. From 2007 to 2017, she worked as a technician in the Department of Medi Ambient during the Ozone Campaigns (May-September). From 2017 she works at Barcelona Super Computing Centre as a research engineer in the Computational Earth Science group from Earth Sciences Department. She is responsible for supervising the operational runs of the MONARCH model and CALIOPE Air Quality System at BSC. Other of her tasks are interacting with computational earth science scientists to improve the performance and the reliability of the system. She has co-authored more than 10 publications. | + | ===== CES Meetings ===== |
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| - | ==== Carles Tena ==== | + | In the CES group, |
| - | {{: | + | [[https://goo.gl/photos/iwTGT3zLirf9djXP8| Take a look!]]\\ |
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| - | Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC - [[https:// | + | |
| - | Position: Developer\\ | + | |
| - | Interests: [[models: | + | |
| - | Contact: [[carles.tena@bsc.es|carles.tena@bsc.es]]\\ | + | |
| - | Short bio: Bachelor on computer science by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and finalizing the master on computational mathematics by Rovira i Virgili University (URV). His main experience is in the development of models and workflows for the daily (emissions, meteorological and air quality) forecast mainly developed in the objected oriented programming language Python. He coordinates the technical development of the emission model HERMESv3. He has technically coordinated the air quality forecast for the Mexico City, he has maintained the CALIOPE system and supervised the daily forecast related with air quality for the Spanish ministry. He is part of the Computational Earth Science group of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) that has into him tasks to provide help and orientation to the scientists with technical problems related with their job and to develop an optimized framework to use more efficiently the high performance computation resources. His work has produced tree papers on scientist’s publications and the supervision of one master student final thesis. | + | |
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| - | ==== Xavier Yepes ==== | + | |
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| - | Computer engineer specialized in computer architecture and HPC - [[https:// | + | |
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| - | Position: Research engineer\\ | + | |
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| - | Interests: Earth Sciences Modelling, computer architecture and High Performance Computing\\ | + | |
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| - | Short bio: Xavier Yepes-Arbós is a research engineer from the Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He joined BSC in 2015 to work on applying High Performance Computing (HPC) to Earth system models (ESMs). His main research lines include topics on scalability and performance analysis of ESMs, characterization of ESM workflows to improve their throughput, and optimization of the I/O process of ESMs by adopting scalable parallel I/O solutions. He holds a bachelor' | + | |
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| - | ==== Iria Ayan ==== | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Iria Ayan is a physicist from University of Barcelona (UB) with a Master in Astrophysics, | + | |
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| - | ==== Albert Vila ==== | + | |
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| - | Short bio: Albert Vila Miró is the IT Technician of Earth Sciences Department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He study a formative cycle of Microcomputer Systems and Networks in La Salle Girona. He was in practice in La Salle Cassà de la Selva, making maintenance of laptops, PC’s, creation of working areas for users, creation and management users with Windows Server, clone and format disks, computer assembly, installation of operating systems, software and drivers… | + | |
| - | When finishes the practice, he works in “Consell Comarcal del Gironès” with creation of multimedia products, assembly, installation, | + | |
| - | Now, he works in BSC to support all users in Earth Sciences Department with creation of manuals, clone and format disks, installation of operating systems, management and maintenance of equipment and peripherals, | + | |
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| - | ==== Christian Guzman Ruiz ==== | + | |
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| - | Position: Research Student\\ | + | |
| - | Interests: HPC performance, | + | |
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| - | Short bio: PhD Student in Computer Science for High-Performance Computing at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), collaborating with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Developed a GPU chemical solver for Earth System Models, using as a test-bed the chemistry Across Multiple Phases (CAMP) module alongside the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic Atmosphere Chemistry Model (MONARCH) and contributing to the most computational and logic part from a performance point of view. | + | |
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| - | ==== Francesca Macchia ==== | + | |
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| - | Position: Research Engineer\\ | + | |
| - | Interests: Workflows, Earth system models, High Performance Computing\\ | + | |
| - | Contact: [[francesca.macchia@bsc.es|francesca.macchia@bsc.es]] \\ | + | |
| - | Short Bio: MSc degree cum laude in Computer Engineering at the University of Salento (Italy), Francesca starts her research activity in the field of high-performance computing working in the Department of Engineering for Innovation of the same university. From 2013 to 2017 she worked at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Changes (Italy), focusing on optimization and parallelization of hydrodynamic models and the design and development of a system to handle ensemble simulations and perform data assimilation in oceanic models. Since 2017, she is a Research Engineer in the Computational Earth Science (CES) group at the Earth Sciences department in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), developing the workflow of the Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) in collaboration with Atmospheric Composition group. | + | |
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| - | ==== Margarida Samsó ==== | + | |
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| - | Position: Junior Data Manager\\ | + | |
| - | Interests: Data management, Big Data\\ | + | |
| - | Contact: [[margarida.samso@bsc.es|margarida.samso_cabre@bsc.es]] - [[https:// | + | |
| - | Short Bio: Margarida is a Research software engineer in the Data and Diagnostics team from the Computational Earth Sciences group. She has a Bachelor' | + | |
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| - | ==== Daniel Beltrán Mora ==== | + | |
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| - | Position: Workflow Management Software Engineer\\ | + | |
| - | Interests: High Performance Computing, computer architecture , Workflows\\ | + | |
| - | Contact: [[daniel.beltran@bsc.es|daniel.beltran@bsc.es]] \\ | + | |
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| - | ==== Saskia Loosveldt Tomas ==== | + | |
| - | Position: Junior research engineer\\ | + | |
| - | Contact: [[saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es|saskia.loosveldt@bsc.es]] \\ | + | |
| - | Short Bio: Saskia has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and a master degree in Numerical Methods for Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. During her undergrad, she got introduced to the field of High Performance Computing while being an intern at HPCNow!, a consultancy company for supercomputing services. After finishing her master degree, she started to work at the Data and Diagnostics team. Her work focuses on the post-process of climate model output variables. | + | |
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| - | ==== Sergi Palomas Martinez ==== | + | |
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| - | **Short Bio**: Sergi is a Research Engineer in the Performance Team. He's got a bachelor in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and he is finishing the MSc in HPC at the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. Currently, he is in charge of the performance analysis of coupled experiments. Assessing Climate prediction and Atmospheric composition members to run their coupled experiments more efficiently by balancing multiple components (number of cores, mapping, scalability, | + | |
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| - | ==== Eric Ferrer ==== | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Eric Ferrer is a Computer Science' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Genis Bonet is a Computer Science & Engineering graduate from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has previosuly worked in full stack web development and specialized in computing during his degree. Genis joined CES' Models and workflows team in november 2022. | + | |
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| - | ==== Victòria Agudetse Roures ==== | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Victòria Agudetse holds a Bachelor' | + | |
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| - | ==== Leo Arriola Meikle ==== | + | |
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| - | Leo Arriola is a Junior Research Engineer in the performance and workflows team, he is also a Computer Scientist from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He'll work on the European project Destination Earth. He joined the CES department in September 2022 to work in the model and workflows team. | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Bruno has a Bachelor degree in Information Systems from the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to joining the BSC he was working on the Common Workflow Language (CWL) project hired by Curii (USA) but working from Auckland, New Zealand. Before that he worked on the Cylc workflow manager with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, in a project funded by the UK-Met Office/ | + | |
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| - | She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), a Master' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Oscar Michel is a junior research engineer in the Performance Team from the Computational Earth Sciences Group. He holds a Master' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Oriol Duran is an Undergraduate student in the Performance Team from the Computational Earth Sciences Group. He is currently elaborating his Bachelor' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Liam Brodie is a Research Engineer working in the Data and Diagnostics Team. He holds a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow. Liam holds experience in Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Android Application Development, | + | |
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| - | **Short Bio:** Aina Gaya is a physicist in the Computational Earth Sciences group, Models & Workflows team. She holds a bachelor in Physics from the University of Barcelona. During her bachelor, she did internships at the Institute of Complex Systems and at the Soft Matter Laboratory Group. | + | |
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| - | Short Bio: Francesc Roura Adserias (him), physicist in the Computational Earth Sciences group, Models and Workflows team. Francesc holds a MSc in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. During the MSc he worked as software developer at the Open Global Glacier Model | + | |
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| - | ==== Stamen Miroslavov Minkov ==== | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Stamen holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a MSc in Biomedical Engineering shared between UB and UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia). With over 4 years of professional experience in IT fields and System Administration (including an internship in the Systems-Servers department of Pavelló Rosa in UB (2018-2019)), | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Supriyo is working on developing diagnostics for the Destination earth project and is responsible for data processing in ESMValTool. He joined BSC on Jan 2023. Before that, he was working as a research fellow at National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa, India. He holds a masters degree in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Hyderabad (IN) and bachelors degree in Physics from the University of Burdwan (IN). | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:**. Amirpasha is a research engineer in the Earth Sciences group and a Models and Workflow team member. He holds a PhD. in computational geophysics from RWTH Aachen University. Before joining the BSC, Amirpasha worked in the Earth System Data Exploration group at Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:**. Roc is a junior research engineer in the Earth Sciences group and a Performance team member. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Facultat d' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:**. Pablo Goitia is a BSc in Computer Engineering student from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Cantabria (UC), Spain. Before starting at BSC and during his degree, he worked as an IT support in the same Faculty he studied thanks to the Becas Santander Prácticas award, and he also actively participates in student representation activities, such as advising other students or working on a mental health project. | + | |
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| - | Alexey Medvedev is a Senior Research Engineer from the Performance Team of Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He joined BSC in 2023 to work on accelerator support implementation for Earth system models. His previous experience is related to complex software design in various fields of Math Modeling, including Fluid Dynamics, Solid Mechanics and others. The software packages he was working on are able to run on parallel scales up to 200 nodes equipped with NVIDIA accelerators. He has certain experience in design and implementation of such HPC components as linear algebra libraries and MPI standard implementation libraries. His scientific interests include various practical aspects of parallel computing, he is a co-author and author of 8 papers in Scopus-indexed journals, author of 1 seminar course. He received his Master Degree from Cybernetics Faculty of Tula State University (Russia) in 2001. | + | |
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| - | Mayssa Kchaou joined the Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) on September 2023 as a Junior Research ML Engineer. She holds a Software Engineering Degree from the University of Arts and Multimedia, Tunisia. Before starting at BSC and during her education, she worked as an Undergraduate Natural Language Processing Engineer and published research scientific papers. | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Santiago is a Research Engineer on the Data and Diagnostics Team. He holds a Posgraduate Degree in FullStack Web Development from Universitat Politecnic of Catalunya (UPC). Additionally, | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Marta joined the Performance Team of the Computational Earth Sciences group on April 2024 as a Junior Research Engineer. She holds a double Bachelor' | + | |
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| - | Andres Gonzalez joined the Computational Earth Sciences Group of the Earth Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in April 2024 as a Research ML Engineer. He holds an Erasmus M.Sc. in Natural Language Processing and Language Technology from University of Malta and University of Lorraine from which he graduated in Fall of 2023. Prior to joining the BSC, Andres worked at Orange Innovation Labs as an R&D NLP Engineer where he focused on tasked-oriented dialogue systems. Besides his interests in NLP and AI, he loves working out, traveling, reading, dancing and music. | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Edgar (he, him) has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Universidad de Murcia and a MSc in Bioinformatics from the UAB. He did a PhD in Bioinformatics at the CRG on the Notredame' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Lorena is a Visualization Developer in the Data and Diagnostics team of the Computational Earth Sciences group. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (UB), a Master’s degree in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (UB and UAM), and is currently studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (UB). She completed various internships with diverse groups at the University of Barcelona and at the ALBA Synchrotron. During her master' | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Naiara Alonso joined the Computational Earth Sciences group thanks to BSC International Summer HPC Internship Programme in the 2024 edition. She is currently a BSc Computer Science student at the University of Cantabria (UC), on her last year. Before that, she has been studying abroad for one year in the University of Maribor, in Slovenia, and actively participating as volunteer in student organizations. | + | |
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| - | **Short bio:** Enric Millán joined the Models and Workflows team, of the Computational Earth Sciences group, through the BSC International Summer HPC Internship Programme in June 2024. He is currently a Bachelor' | + | |
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