{"id":5938,"date":"2021-02-09T20:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2021-02-09T20:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:14:01","slug":"impressions-from-the-virtual-school-on-numerical-methods-for-parallel-cfd-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/impressions-from-the-virtual-school-on-numerical-methods-for-parallel-cfd-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions from the Virtual School on Numerical Methods for Parallel CFD 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5937\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5937 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/VSchool_CFD_CINECA_2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/VSchool_CFD_CINECA_2020.png 750w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/VSchool_CFD_CINECA_2020-400x252.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecture by prof. Alfredo Soldati in the 2020 Virtual School on Numerical Methods for Parallel CFD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In December 2020, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cineca.it\/en\">CINECA<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.prace-ri.eu\/event\/1091\/\">School on Numerical Methods for Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD)<\/a><\/strong> moved online for the first time due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemia. This annual <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prace-ri.eu\/\">PRACE<\/a><\/strong> training event gathered top international researchers who presented state-of-the-art fluid simulation models and conducted several practical sessions using specialized parallel codes in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpc.cineca.it\/hardware\/marconi100\">Marconi100<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpc.cineca.it\/hardware\/galileo\">Galileo<\/a><\/strong> supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our group member, <strong>Dr Pedro Bonilla, took the opportunity of the online format to attend the school during the first two weeks of December. <\/strong>On top of the imparted knowledge that will improve the quality of our future multi-physics simulations of fusion reactors, the school provided an excellent opportunity to build connections with an accomplished community of experts, early researchers and students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding fluid theory and models, the lectures covered <strong>Turbulence, Multi-phase flows, Immersed boundary techniques, Finite Differences (FD) techniques, Discontinuous Galerkin methods, and unstructured Finite Volumes.<\/strong> On the High Performing Computer (HPC) side the school delved into <strong><strong>parallelisation paradigms, performance and portability of codes to both GPUs and heterogeneous architectures, and Tools and techniques for profiling in HPC.<\/strong><\/strong> The school also included tutorials and hands-on sessions of the codes <strong><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PhysicsofFluids\">AFiD<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nek5000.mcs.anl.gov\/\">Nek5000<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/matteobernardini\/STREAmS\">STREAMS<\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/strong> and <strong><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openfoam.com\/\">OpenFOAM<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0to show the practical side of the studied topics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The course was successfully run by CINECA&#8217;s staff and the experience can only improve with the lessons learned from a first virtual edition. Therefore, <strong>we can only encourage CFD enthusiasts to mark the next editions of this event in their agendas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2020, CINECA&#8216;s School on Numerical Methods for Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) moved online for the first time due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemia. This annual PRACE training event gathered top international researchers who presented state-of-the-art fluid simulation models and conducted several practical sessions using specialized parallel codes in Marconi100 and Galileo supercomputers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[41,35],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group","category-news","tag-cfd","tag-hpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}