[IEE EC3 News] Lecture reminder - Computing and Climate Science - 23 January 2020

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

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I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you
there.

You can download a poster from the following IET web page to display
in your place of work:

https://communities.theiet.org/files/17713

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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The impact of the changing nature of computing on climate science

Bryan Lawrence, University of Reading

Climate science depends heavily on computer simulations of the real
world producing vast amounts of data and executed on a wide variety of
platforms. Over the years advances in our ability to simulate the
world have piggy backed on Kryder’s and Moore’s Laws, but these laws
are dying (and Dennard Scaling, which made it possible for processors
to go faster, is over). The obvious industry solution is more
parallelism, in supercomputers, cloud computing, storage systems, and
everything down into mobiles and edge computing. Alongside all that
parallelism is heterogeneity in both storage and compute.

This talk will provide an overview of the interaction of climate
modelling with computer technology in the past, and how it might play
out in the future given the changing nature of computing. It will
become clear that climate modelling is one of the grand computational
challenges, stressing our ability to programme for next generation
supercomputers and cloud, and stressing our ability to handle data.
Current and future solutions to these computer science problems will
be discussed, from new ways of data handling, to new maths, the use of
artificial intelligence and machine learning, and new ways of
programming.

Thursday 23rd January 2020, 7:00pm for 7:30pm

Refreshments from 7:00pm

Venue
Van Emden Theatre, Edith Morley, University of Reading RG6 6UR
See https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/visit-us.aspx

Contact
Professor Richard Mitchell r.j.mitchell at reading.ac.uk