Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate

Program Chairs: Brian J. Etherton , ESRL/GSD ; Gerald J. Creager , CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NSSL

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Sunday, 10 January 2016

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Monday, 11 January 2016

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Recording files available
Plenary Session 1
2016 Presidential Forum: Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Location: La Nouvelle B-C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Moderator: Maureen McCann, News 13
Panelists: Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard (ret), Executive Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton; Kerry Emanuel, MIT; Shirley Laska, University of New Orleans; Max Mayfield, WPLG-TV/Former NOAA/National Hurricane Center Director
9:00 AM
Presidential Forum on Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
9:05 AM
Opening Remarks (by AMS President Alexander E. “Sandy” MacDonald)

9:15 AM
Introduction of Moderator McCann (MacDonald)

9:16 AM
Introduction of Speakers (McCann)

9:20 AM
Opening Remarks of Speakers

10:05 AM
Q&A

10:30 AM
Concluding Remarks

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Lecture 1
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Joint Session 1
HPC and AI for Big Data in Atmosphere, Ocean and Water
Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Chair: Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma
11:00 AM
J1.1
High Performance Computing for Mesoscale Weather Prediction with the K-computer
Kazuo Saito, MRI/JAMSTEC, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Oizumi, L. Duc, K. Ito, M. Kunii, S. Yokota, S. Origuchi, W. Mashiko, J. Ito, and H. Seko
11:15 AM
J1.2
11:45 AM
J1.4
Exploring Methods to Leverage Apache Spark in Meteorological Applications Through the Creation of Scispark
Kim D. Whitehall, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. Palamuttam, R. Marroquin Mogrovejo, B. D. Wilson, C. Mattmann, L. J. McGibbney, R. Verma, and P. Ramirez

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


96th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: Great Hall ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Thursday, 14 January 2016

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Recording files available
Session 1
High Performance Computing in Operations
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Chair: Brian J. Etherton, ESRL/GSD
8:30 AM
1.1
NOAA's WCOSS Upgrade and Lessons Learned for Shared Storage and Managing Memory
Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and B. Kyger, S. Earle, and G. Vandenberghe
9:15 AM
1.4
ECMWF's Next Generation IO for the IFS Model
Tiago Quintino, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and B. Raoult and P. Bauer
9:30 AM
1.5

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session 1
HPC Poster Session
Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
886
A Sustainable High Performance Computing System for Teaching and Research
Steven Boring, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao and A. Bridger

887
Visualization of Weather Information Using a Scalable Database
Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Cook, S. Harrell, and J. Shin

890
High Performance Computing for 4D Weather Cubes and Real-Time, World-Wide Visualization of Radiative Effects
Steven T. Fiorino, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and A. VanFossen, B. Elmore, J. Schmidt, and K. Keefer

Handout (7.1 MB)

892
Large-scale Parallelized EOF Computation on the CSFR Ocean Temperature Field
Alex Gittens, International Institute for Computer Science, Berkeley, CA; and N. R. Cavanaugh, K. Kashinath, T. A. O'Brien, M. Prabhat, and M. Mahoney

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

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Session 2
Cloud Systems and Visualization
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Cochairs: Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates
11:00 AM
2.1
Advanced Information Systems to Support Climate Projection Data Analysis
Daniel Duffy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. P. Maxwell, C. Doutriaux, D. Williams, A. Chaudhary, and S. Ames
11:15 AM
2.2A
TECA an Extreme Event Detection and Climate Analysis Package for High Performance Computing
Burlen Loring, LBL, Berkeley, CA; and S. Byna, M. Prabhat, J. Gu, H. Krishnan, M. Wehner, and O. Ruebel

11:30 AM
2.3
Enabling End-to-End Climate Science Workflows in High Performance Computing Environments
Harinarayan Krishnan, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and B. Loring, S. Byna, M. F. Wehner, T. A. O'Brien, M. Prabhat, C. Paciorek, and D. Stone

11:45 AM
2.4
ADCIRC Surge Guidance System in Real Time For Hurricane Planning and Response
Jason G. Fleming, Seahorse Coastal Consulting, Morehead City, NC; and J. V. Reynolds-Fleming and R. A. Luettich

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

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Session 3
Ocean Circulation Modeling and High Performance Computing
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Cochairs: Gerald J. Creager, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NSSL; Brian J. Etherton, ESRL/GSD
1:45 PM
3.2
High Order Numerical Methods for Geophysical Fluid Flows on HPC Architectures
Clint Dawson, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. Westerink, C. Michoski, and S. Brus
2:30 PM
3.5
Updates on the Utilization of the Intel® Xeon Phi Co-processors with the Community-based Shallow Water Model, ADCIRC
Kendra M. Dresback, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Velesko, R. L. Kolar, B. Starcher, A. Sharp, R. Green, T. Phung, J. Alexander, D. Akin, and H. Neeman

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

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Session 4
Tuning Codes for HPC or Evolving Interconnects to Improve Performance
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Cochairs: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Carolyn Reynolds, NRL
3:30 PM
4.1
A Scalable Implementation of Ensemble Data Assimilation for Very Large Models
Helen Kershaw, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hendricks, Y. Feng, J. Anderson, and N. Collins
4:15 PM
4.4
Tuning Weather Codes for Omnipath, EDR, and Other High Speed Interconnects
David Akin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. J. Creager and Y. Wang

4:30 PM
4.5
Performance Analysis, Profiling and Optimization of Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) Model
Negin Sobhani, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and D. Del Vento, D. Gill, S. Elliot, and S. Vadlamani

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


AMS 96th Annual Meeting Adjourns