Description:

Significant effort continues to be employed in the academic environment, supporting environmental modeling tasks, data analysis, and application development. However, it is important to be aware of the challenges, barriers, and success stories that may be encouraging or limiting the use and adoption of new and better technologies in the academic environment – and to best focus efforts towards building the human infrastructure necessary for future advances in HPC for Weather, Water, and Climate. This session will focus on how students, post-docs, faculty, and research staff are adopting and employing traditional and emerging HPC techniques such as clusters, accelerators, code refactoring for heterogeneous computing, and more in the academic environment. Papers on experiences with on-premise, cloud based, and hybrid solutions are solicited to provide a broad look at how HPC is being used and is evolving in academic environments in the face of new technologies becoming available. Additionally, submissions from those in roles of providing direct hardware, software and subject-matter expert support for HPC in academic environments or in roles which work to improve access to HPC resources to students, post-docs, faculty, and research staff are encouraged.