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The Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group is a multidisciplinary team with different IT profiles that interacts closely with all the other groups of the 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 and optimisation area will be created for Earth system model codes towards exascale computing, and to provide feedback on this to modellers around Europe. Last but not least, the development of a framework to disseminate the outputs generated by the BSC-ES among the research and service community will be pursued. This area will take advantage of the unique environment of the BSC where research in Big Data is already a priority that will be extended in the next years.
One of the common scopes of the group is the guidance on the use of IT resources, with the aim of Designing and maintaining an IT infrastructure allowing the research teams the accomplishment of their objectives. This involves:
The group is led by Kim Serradell and co-led by Alicia Sánchez and is organised in 3 teams (Models and Workflows, Performance and Data and Diagnostics) as shown below.
Models and workflows team:
Current members: Miguel Castrillo (team leader), Mario Acosta, Pablo Echevarría, Francesca Macchia, Domingo Manubens, Miriam Olid, Carles Tena
Purpose: Development of HPC user-friendly software framework for Earth system modelling and the management of operational systems
Tasks:
Projects and softwares developed:
Performance team:
Current members: Mario Acosta (team leader), Miguel Castrillo, Oriol Tinto, Xavier Yepes
Purpose: Efficient use of the computational resources by the research groups
Tasks:
Projects and softwares developed:
Data and Diagnostics Team:
Current members: Francesco Benincasa, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière (team leaders), David Arroyo, Laura Cifuentes, Júlia Giner, Alasdair Hunter, Nicolau Manubens, Javier Vegas, Elisa Distante
Purpose: Provision of data services
Tasks:
Projects and softwares developed:
In this page, you can find the current material related to Big Data in Earth Sciences.
Software engineer - Linkedin
Interests: Workflows, High Performance Computing
Computational Earth Sciences Co-Manager -
Interests: Research Management, BigData and Data Sciences(ML applications in Earth Sciences)
Earth system models, High performance computing, performance analysis and Co-Team management.
alicia.sanchez@bsc.es
Computational Earth Sciences manager - Linkedin
Interests: Earth system models, performance analysis and team management.
Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC - LinkedIn
Position: Junior Developer
Interests: CALIOPE, WRF, HERMESv2, CMAQ, Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Computer Engineer specialized in Computer Architecture and HPC - LinkedIn
Position: Developer
Interests: Earth Sciences, Astronomy, Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Software engineer
Position: Technical in formation
Interests: High performance computing, big data, data homogenization, climate data, climate forecasting.
Contact: nicolau.manubens@bsc.es
PhD Student in High Performance Computing for Ocean Modeling
Interests: Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, Modeling and Technology
Computational Engineer, Software Analyst
Interests: HPC performance, Scientific Models, Data management and visualization
Contact: miguel.castrillo@bsc.es, Twitter, Linkedin
Postdoctoral Researcher
Interests: HPC performance, Computer Architecture, Scientific Models, Computational Dynamic Fluids, Mathematical algorithms
Contact: mario.acosta@bsc.es
Position: Junior Developer
Interests: Data management, Big data, Climate data, Climate forecasting.
Contact: julia.giner@bsc.es,
Computer engineer with a Master Degree in Social Research.
Position: Developer
Interests: Free Software, GNU Emacs, Web Development, e-learning, Social Movements
Contact: david.arroyo@bsc.eshttp://www.davidam.com
Position: Software engineer
Interests: Statistical programming, statistical analysis of climate and extreme events, catastrophe modelling, extratropical cyclones
Contact: alasdair.hunter@bsc.es
Position: Research software engineer
Interests: Numeric modeling, HPC, Linux.
Contact: pablo.echevarria@bsc.es Linkedin
Position: Junior Developer
Interests: Mathematical modelling, Data science, Big data.
Contact: laura.cifuentes@bsc.es
In the CES group, we use Trello to follow our activities.