BSC-CNS: The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación BSC-CNS is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. We specialise in high performance computing (HPC) and manage MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, located in the Torre Girona chapel. BSC-CNS is organised into 6 core departments: Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Computer Applications in Science & Engineering (CASE), Operations and Management. See a graphic of BSC´s organization structure here.

ES Department: The mission of the Earth Sciences (BSC-ES) Department is to develop and implement global and regional models and data solutions for air quality and climate forecasting and their applications. Just like other departments at BSC, the earth sciences department has a number of research groups. Atmospheric Composition, Climate prediction, Computational earth sciences (CES), Earth System Services (ESS) and General Earth Sciences are the groups within the Earth Sciences. Department.

How to set up your working environment Log in in your workstation, using the unique username and provisional password HR gave you after signing your contract. To do this, go to the BSC intranet Central Password area, log in with the provisional credentials and later change to your own personal password.

Set up your email client Set up Mozilla Thunderbird. This is the email client we use at BSC. If you do not have Thunderbird on your computer (likely for laptop users), download it online. For a tutorial to set up Thunderbird email and to sync BSC contacts to it see this link.

Set up your calendar Your BSC email comes with your personal calendar. We use the calendar to access each other’s calendars and check, for instance, their availability for a meeting and send them an invitation. One of the first things to do is to subscribe at your teammates' calendars. For a tutorial to set up and use your calendar and sync it to Thunderbird see this link. Subscribe to department and group calendar then other coworkers. Each BSC member has a personal calendar, and some have additional collective calendars. For example, Albert has a calendar for group meetings and to book meeting rooms (see below). You should subscribe to these important calendars:

• Go to Albert's calendar and subscribe to ESS events (information about the ESS group biweekly meetings and other events)
• Go to Albert's calendar and subscribe to ESS meeting room (to book the ESS meeting room)
• Go to Gabriela Tarabanoff's calendar and subscribe to BSC-ES events (information about BSC-ES department monthly meeting and other events

Newcomers in ESS group (and BSC-ES department) have to add a brief biography explaining their academic and professional background. To have an idea of the format, here are the biography wiki pages of :

• ESS group biography
• AC group biography
• CES group biography
• CP group biography

Newcomers also have to send an email to the BSC-ES department (bsc-es@bsc.es) with a few words of introduction explaining (1) on which topic you are going to work, (2) with who, (3) in which office you are going to work (Torre Girona in the case of ESS people), and (4) please also add a photo of you so that people can identify who you are. After sending this email, the ESS leader will add you to the ESS mailing list (services-es@bsc.es).

In addition, newcomers will also have the opportunity to present themselves to the other other during (1) their first ESS (bi-weekly) meeting, and (2) their first BSC-ES department (monthly) meeting.

Regular meetings are organized at the level of the ESS group and the BSC-ES department.

ESS group meetings :ESS group meetings are organized every two weeks. They occur the Monday between 15-16h in the Severo Ochoa meeting room of Torre Girona. All ESS people are asked to assist these group meetings. Here is the link to the wiki page of the ESS group meetings : Agenda and minutes of ESS group meetings. Any ESS person can edit this page and add an issue to be discussed during the next meeting (please add your name into brackets at the end of your input). These meetings are organized as follows : (1) presentation of the newcomers in any, (2) review and discussion of the points added by the ESS people, (3) brief update about the status of the project proposals in preparation, (4) a 10-15 min presentation from one member of ESS.

BSC-ES department meetings : BSC-ES department meeting are organized once a month. The date/time/location is sent by email a few days before. It can also be seen by following the calendar of Gabriela Tarabanoff. These department meetings usually occur in “Aula de Teleensenyament” meeting room (B3 building of UPC, see here the location). Here is the link to the wiki page of the BSC-ES department meetings : Agenda and minutes of BSC-ES department meetings. As for the ESS group meeting, any BSC-ES person can edit this page and add an issue to be discussed (again, please add your name into brackets at the end of your input).

Besides these two meetings, newcomers will join and/or organize other meetings related to their work here in the ESS group. In order to limit the high meeting activity, it is to be noted that Wednesday is a “meeting-free day” in the BSC-ES department. During this day, BSC-ES people can request to work from home.

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