abstract: Wind resource assessment is performed before deciding to construct a new wind farm. Its objective is to obtain a better understanding of the flow over the potential site for a wind farm. It combines experimental data from a couple of wind mast that are the energy the wind farm can produce and enables to determine the optimal positions for the wind turbines. Currently, state of the art in the industry is to resort to Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence models for such simulations. While RANS models are computationally affordable and quite robust, they are known to have accuracy limitations for regions where separated flows are found, behind mountains for instance. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) can provide much more accurate results, at a much higher computational cost. With the advent of exascale computers, LES has become a viable alternative. In this talk, we will present the work we have been doing for Iberdrola during the last six years and the steps we are taking within EoCoE to push the limits towards much higher accuracies thanks to the efficient use of exascale resources.

abstract: Julien Bigot, tenured computer science researcher at CEA, will present the PDI data interface, a declarative API to decouple application codes from the Input / Output strategy to use. He will present its plugin system, which supports the selection of the best-suited existing IO library through a configuration file in each part of the code depending on the hardware available, the IO pattern, the problem size, etc. This webinar will demonstrate the advantage of this approach in term of software engineering and performance through the example of the Gysela5D code.

abstract: Current applications in Computational and Data Science often require the solution of large and sparse linear systems. The notion of "large" is qualitative and there is a clear tendency to increase it; currently, needing to solve systems with millions or even billions of unknowns is not unusual. To efficiently solve the above systems on high-end massively parallel computers, the methods of choice are the Krylov methods, whose convergence and scalability properties are related to the choice of suitable preconditioning techniques. During this webinar, Pasqua D'Ambra, Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council of Italy, will present MLD2P4 (MultiLevel Domain Decomposition Parallel Preconditioners Package based on PSBLAS), which provides efficient and easy-to-use preconditioners in the context of the PSBLAS (Parallel Sparse Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) computational framework. The package, whose features are constantly updated within the Energy-Oriented Center of Excellence (EoCoE) European project, includes multilevel cycles and smoothers widely used in multigrid methods. A purely algebraic approach is applied to generate coarse-level corrections so that no geometric background is needed concerning the matrix to be preconditioned. We will present the main features of the package, and example of usage of the main APIs needed to setup the preconditioner, together with its application within the Krylov solvers available from PSBLAS. Some results on test cases relative to the EoCoE application areas highlight how the PSBLAS/MLD2P4 software framework can be used to obtain highly scalable linear solvers. The PSBLAS library is available at https://github.com/sfilippone/psblas3 MLD2P4 is available at https://github.com/sfilippone/mld2p4-2

abstract: This tutorial will address the basic functionalities of the PSBLAS library for the parallelization of computationally intensive scientific applications. We will delve into the parallel implementation of iterative solvers for sparse linear systems in a distributed memory paradigm, and look at the routines for multiplying sparse matrices by dense matrices, solving block diagonal systems with triangular diagonal entries, preprocessing sparse matrices, and several additional routines for dense matrix operations. We will discuss both the direct usage of the library in Fortran2003 and the usage of the C interfaces. The tutorial will include examples relative to the EoCoE-II application areas, and highlight how the PSBLAS environment can be used to obtain scalable parallel codes.

abstract: This presentation describes the advantages of thermal energy storage in concentrating solar power plants, and how these advantages can be maximised through optimisation of generation scheduling.

abstract: Turbulence governs heat confinement in tokamak fusion plasmas. In turn, turbulence properties explain why large machines, like ITER, are required so as to reach the desired performance in terms of energy gain. Understanding, predicting and possibly controlling turbulent transport is therefore of outermost importance in fusion research. In addition to experimental measurements, High Performance Computing (HPC) now allows one to gain much insight in these critical issues. The talk will first recall the basic principles of controlled fusion and of plasma confinement in tokamaks. The main features of turbulence and transport will be reviewed, with implications on the required modelling effort. The focus will be put on turbulence self-organization and on the multi-scale aspect of the problem, in particular regarding the interaction between electron and ion scales on the one hand, and ion and equilibrium scales on the other hand. The role of sheared flows will be shown to be critical. Finally, the route towards turbulence control will be discussed, emphasizing the modelling effort of the spontaneous bifurcation to transport barriers characterized by improved confinement regimes.