Cylc and the Altair Weather Solution
High-performance computing (HPC) is a critical enabler for weather forecasting and climate modeling. Major weather and climate centers around the world use HPC technology to power numerical weather prediction (NWP), climate prediction, ocean modeling, and more. As HPC technology gets smarter and faster, model fidelity increases and researchers can run more simulations in less time, giving accuracy a big boost.
Webinar
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11 a.m. IST (APAC region) – register at right
Additional Times
Thursday, June 18, 2020, 2 p.m. CEST (EMEA region) – go to registration page
Thursday, June 18, 2020, 2 p.m. EDT (Americas) – go to registration page
Join us for a webinar on June 16 or 18 to find out how some of the world’s biggest weather sites orchestrate cycling workflows with advanced HPC tools like the Cylc workflow engine and Altair® PBS Professional® workload manager.
Dr. Hilary Oliver, the creator of Cylc, will explain how the workflow engine automatically executes tasks according to detailed schedules and dependencies and why Cylc has become such a popular choice for weather and climate modeling, NWP, physics simulation, and data processing. Altair’s own software development VP David Block will host the discussion, addressing the unique demands of weather and climate science with Dr. Oliver and how Altair and Cylc collaborate on a turnkey weather solution featuring Cylc and PBS Professional.
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Presenters
Dr. Hilary Oliver
Cylc Inventor, Senior Research Software Engineer, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand
Dr. Hilary Oliver is a senior research software engineer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in Wellington, New Zealand. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in astrophysics (computational plasma physics) from Princeton University. He currently works on software infrastructure for weather and environmental forecasting systems with a particular focus on workflow automation. Dr. Oliver is the originator of Cylc, and he co-chairs the Technical Advisory Group of the Unified Model Partnership (institutions that use the Met Office Unified Model atmospheric model around the world).
David Block
VP Software Development, Altair Engineering
David Block is vice president for software engineering at Altair, focusing on the weather market as well as leading the engineering team for Altair Accelerator™ products. Prior to this role, David led the PBS Professional team for over 10 years, which included the move to open source. Before joining Altair, David spent 18 years at Acuson (later Siemens), a medical ultrasound company, where he wrote firmware before managing various software organizations and major projects. David holds a B.S. in math/computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Ashish Kumar Singh
Senior Technical Manager, Altair Engineering
Ashish Kumar Singh is a senior technical manager at Altair, focusing on the weather market and leading the Altair Access™ engineering team. Prior to this role, Ashish led various projects in web portals, mobile development, and business analytics over 13 years at Altair. Before joining the company, Ashish spent 2 years working with Tech Mahindra, where he architected workflow and rules engine integration for enterprise automation at the Irrigation & Flood Control department of one of the biggest states in India. Ashish holds an MCA degree from UPTU in Uttar Pradesh, India.