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CES Units
Climate Model Development and HPC Adaptation Unit
Members
- **Xavier Yepes** (Unit Leader)
- Eric Ferrer (attending meetings)
Purpose
Contribute to the development and performance improvement of the EC-Earth model and its associated tools.
Tasks
- Fixing known issues that are hindering prouctions runs
- Improving coupled load-balance
- Profiling and identifying areas for optimization
- Improving I/O
- Refactoring code
- Efficient deployment
- Code development of new features/components
- Develop tools such as Auto-LB and APP
Projects and Softwares Develope
- EC-Earth
- Auto-LB
- APP
Outcomes
Efficient executions of the EC-Earth model in terms of energy and computatinal resources.
EC-Earth Unit
Members
- ** Gilbert Montané** (Unit Leader)
Purpose
Contribute to the development, maintenance, and improvement of the EC-Earth model and its associated tools.
Tasks
- Collaborate in the development of new model features in close collaboration with scientific groups and other EC-Earth consortium partners
- Study and improve the performance of the model
- Develop and maintain the Auto-EC-Earth tool
- Support users on the execution of the model and postprocessing tools
Projects and Softwares Developed
- EC-Earth
- Auto-EC-Earth
- ece2cmor
- Auto-LB
- APP
Outcomes
Auto-EC-Earth workflow including the execution of the model and the postprocessing of the outputs, new features and improvements in the model.
Emissions Unit
Members
- ** Carles Tena** (Unit Leader)
Purpose
Create and improve emission models and post-processing tools.
See more information here.
Tasks
- Develop new emission models, maintain current ones and explore HPC optimizations. Take care of post-processing tools for AC models.
Projects and Softwares Developed
- HERMES_GR
- HERMES_BU
- HERMES_Delta
- PHENOMENA
- IEZMVM
- NES
- SNES
- Output_Checker
Outcomes
Open source emission models. Papers as co-autors. (Working on first-autor technical papers).
GPU Computing Unit
Members
- ** Alexey Medvedev** (Unit Leader)
Purpose
Create and profile modeling and compute intensive GPU code in C/C++ and Fortran.
Tasks
- Port existing model code to GPUs
- Automate GPU code profiling
- Research on best automation methods for GPU code porting
Projects and Softwares Developed
- Destination Earth – Climate Digital Twins
- European Digital Twin Ocean
- MONARCH
- NEMO v.4
- NEMO v.5
- CAMP
Outcomes
The modeling software components that are able to effectively use the GPU resources of EuroHPC ecosystem.
MONARCH Development and HPC Adaptation Unit
Members
- ** Hannah Ross** (Unit Leader)
Purpose
Develop and improve the performance of Monarch.
Tasks
- Fixing known issues that are hindering prouctions runs
- Porting to GPUs
- Profiling and identifying areas for optimization
- Improving IO
- Refactoring code
Projects and Softwares Developed
Outcomes
- Improved performance of Monarch
- Future publications
Numerical Development and Scientific Evaluation Unit
Members
- ** Kai Keller** (Unit Leader)
Purpose
Develop and implement features and performance improvements for earth system model components, and develop and apply model diagnostics.
Tasks
- Develop model integration testing tools
- Implement scientific features
- Implement technical features
- Implement performance improvements
- Develop and apply model diagnostics
Projects and Softwares Developed
- Destination Earth
- TerraDT
- HANAMI
- PREDDYCT
Outcomes
- Novel model diagnostics
- Scientific publications
- Improved model physics and realism
- Better model performance
- International collaborations
R Tools Unit
Members
- ** Victoria Agudetse** (Unit Leader)
Purpose
Develop R packages and software tools for the analysis and visualization of climate data.
See more information here.
Tasks
- Maintain current in-house R packages
- Coordinate with other groups to integrate and organize common R code according to research and project needs.
- Contribute to the operationalization of climate services for department projects
- Provide user support to researchers working with the R Tools
Projects and Softwares Developed
Outcomes
- startR, multiApply, easyNCDF, s2dv, ClimProjDiags, CStools and CSIndicators are published on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
- SUNSET poster presented at conferences (CERISE General Assembly, EMS2024, XIII Asociación Española de Climatología)
- Technical papers published for some of the R Packages (CSTools, CSIndicators)
- Co-authorship in papers by other groups
Web Development Unit
Members
Purpose
Develop websites and web applications for the various projects within the department.
Tasks
- Build and maintain web applications, websites, and manage relevant infrastructure
Projects and Softwares Developed
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