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International summit seeks to harness supercomputing power for climate decision-making
The long-term goal of the summit, hosted by NCSA and led by atmospheric science professor Kelvin Droegemeier, is kilometer-level global resolution in Earth system modeling and climate prediction.
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Ministry of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (CliMAS) will bring together more than 100 top experts in climate, Earth System Modeling (ESM), computing and other fields to participate in the International Climate Computer Summit in September 2024 Held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from October 29th to October 2nd.
The summit will convene an international panel of experts from academia, government, industry, and non-profit organizations to explore the practicalities of co-designing special computing systems and modeling frameworks to support cutting-edge Earth system science research and the use of kilometer-scale global climate predictions . In addition, it will discuss how the output of global high-resolution climate projections, particularly at local and regional scales, can be used to do so in areas such as economic and personal risks, health, infrastructure, food production, biodiversity, global geopolitical stability, etc. Make decisions.
“Many groups around the world are pioneering high-resolution ESMs that, when combined with artificial intelligence and machine learning, will transform our understanding of the global Earth system and greatly improve our ability to predict future climate states. This is the coin of the coin. One side,” said Kelvin K. Droegemeier, professor of atmospheric sciences and special advisor to the chancellor for science and policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Another aspect discussed at the summit concerns the computing environment needed to enable this transformation. Even with artificial intelligence, it does not exist, but we believe that if the international climate research community joins forces in an unprecedented way, it can create out. Such efforts will not replace existing research strategies but will add value to them while opening up new prospects for educational opportunities and providing practitioners and stakeholders with the knowledge they need to make decisions in various sectors of society. Information. “
The goal of the Climate Summit is to bring together the international community to achieve a transformative milestone: providing information about the Earth's climate system on a global scale through the use of sophisticated ESMs at a global resolution of several kilometers, combined with regional weather forecast models. and provide detailed information on regional weather forecast models. Reliable, detailed information at this scale can help make timely climate decisions at local and regional scales. Achieving this important goal requires computing power and software frameworks beyond those currently commercially available.
NCSA’s powerful supercomputing resources and expert team are fully capable of meeting the challenges of climate change. For example, NCSA's Blue Waters and iForge supercomputers at the University of Illinois help researchers model volcanic activity using real-time data to provide daily forecasts, as well as data from the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), a A powerful collection of integrated digital resources and services, including supercomputers, visualization and storage systems, helped researchers bring Amazon's “heartbeat” weather pattern to life. NCSA is poised to be a powerful asset in the fight against climate change.
“NCSA and the University of Illinois have a long history of collaborating with climate researchers to solve the most challenging environmental problems,” said NCSA Director Bill Gropp. “Climate modeling at this scale will require innovative and efficient systems designed for these problems.” computing resources. With a legacy of deploying and helping scientists use the latest technologies, we are proud to sponsor this summit and demonstrate our commitment to helping policymakers address and plan for climate uncertainty.
The summit will bring to Urbana-Champaign more than 100 invited attendees from around the world, including government, climate research, higher education, computer science, technology and industry. The public is invited to attend the summit virtually free of charge, and all plenary sessions will be broadcast live around the world. You can register to attend the Summit virtually through this link.
The International Climate Computer Summit is hosted by the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Maryland, Berkeley Laboratory, Max ·Planck Institute for Meteorology, University of Utah, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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