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C.I.R.A. Italian Aerospace Research Center. CIRA in brief. CIRA is a no-profit shareholding Consortium. The main shareholders are ASI (Italian Space Agency 47%), CNR (National Research Council 5%), Regione Campania ( 16%) and the main italian aerospace industries ( 32%) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
C.I.R.A.C.I.R.A.Italian Aerospace Research CenterItalian Aerospace Research Center
COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
CIRA is a no-profit shareholding Consortium. CIRA is a no-profit shareholding Consortium.
The main shareholders are ASI (Italian Space Agency The main shareholders are ASI (Italian Space Agency 47%), CNR (National Research Council 47%), CNR (National Research Council 5%), Regione 5%), Regione Campania (Campania (16%) and the main italian aerospace industries 16%) and the main italian aerospace industries ((32%)32%)
CIRA operates according to the guidelines provided by the CIRA operates according to the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)
CIRA mission is defined CIRA mission is defined by the Italian Aerospace Research by the Italian Aerospace Research Programme (PRO.R.A.)Programme (PRO.R.A.)
Yearly operation cost partly is covered by government Yearly operation cost partly is covered by government contributioncontribution
Currently 350 employees (about 250 are researchers and Currently 350 employees (about 250 are researchers and technical people)technical people)
CIRA in briefCIRA in brief
COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
CIRA’s istitutional aimCIRA’s istitutional aim
To realize Excellence Centers, which shall integrate To realize Excellence Centers, which shall integrate Research Capabilities with the Large Fluid dynamic Research Capabilities with the Large Fluid dynamic Facilities and Technological Laboratories in several Facilities and Technological Laboratories in several main technologies areas;main technologies areas;
To identify Scientific Objectives and develop Basic To identify Scientific Objectives and develop Basic Research in synergy with the National and International Research in synergy with the National and International Scientific Community;Scientific Community;
To act as a partner of the Scientific Community and To act as a partner of the Scientific Community and Industry;Industry;
To provide technical assistance to public Authorities To provide technical assistance to public Authorities for qualification and regulations.for qualification and regulations.
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Guidance Systems
Advanced Materials
Aerothermodynamics and Thermostruct.
Aerodynamics, Icingand Aeroacustics
Computer Science
Areas of CompetenceAreas of Competence
Space Propulsion
Adaptronics
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CFD TOOLS and SKILLSCFD TOOLS and SKILLS
• Boundary Elements Method (BEM) for potential flowsBoundary Elements Method (BEM) for potential flows
• EULER solvers for non-viscous rotational flowsEULER solvers for non-viscous rotational flows
• BL, TLNS, RANS, U-RANS for viscous flowsBL, TLNS, RANS, U-RANS for viscous flows
• LES, DNS for direct simulation of turbulent flowsLES, DNS for direct simulation of turbulent flows
• Surface/Domain modellers, Grid generatorsSurface/Domain modellers, Grid generators
• Direct/iterative linear system solvers and convergence Direct/iterative linear system solvers and convergence acceleration techniques (multigrid, residual smoothing, etc.)acceleration techniques (multigrid, residual smoothing, etc.)
• Flow VisualizersFlow Visualizers
• Post-processors for analysis and evaluation of flow solutionsPost-processors for analysis and evaluation of flow solutions
About 50 researchers involvedAbout 50 researchers involved
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CIRA Computers Vector/Parallel Scalar/Parallel
Manufacturer NEC NEC
Model SX-6/8A TX7
Operating System Super-UX 14.1 Linux
Nr. CPU 8 20 (IA-64 Itanium 1.5 GHz)
Peak performance
8 x 8 GFlops 20 x 6 GFlops
Central memory 64 GB 40 GB
CIRA Supercomputing CIRA Supercomputing activitiesactivities
•Vector/parallel coding and numerical optimization
•Management and interpretation of data from heterogeneous systems (numerical models, experimental facilities, observation systems, etc.)
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Environmental Activities at Environmental Activities at CIRACIRA
CIRA and ASI have coordinated the development of the “Italian Position Paper on the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Programme (GMES)” providing UE and ESA with the Italian capabilities and requirements
CIRA is member of the CMCC consortium (EuroMediterranean Center for Climate Changing), a supercomputing center devoted to national environmental monitoring approved and funded by the Italian Ministry for Research (MIUR).
Computer simulation of Sarno disaster event (1998, 147 victims)
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CIRA activities in CMCC CIRA activities in CMCC ProjectProject
Line 1: GRID
Technologies and applications
Line 2: Numerical
Applications
Line 5:Evaluation & Diagnostics
of impacts
Line 8:Operations
GRID Computing Applications
Numerical optimizationNumerical optimization
Hydrogeological Hydrogeological and meteorological and meteorological local modelling local modelling
Line 7:Training,
Documentation & Dissemination
Documentation, ISV&V ActivitiesTraining
Participation at supercomputing management activities
"… the safeguard of the health and the environment, are fundamental reference goals in the above strategic projects.... “
“…Particular attention must be given to the expansion and the development of an efficient and effective net of scientific and technical services, for the environmental monitoring, the hydro geological risk , the climate monitoring and the interventions for the mitigation of the harmful effects, the health's safeguard…” (From the 2002-2004 Italian Research Programme)
COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
CIRA signed an agreement with the Japanese Earth Simulator Center/JAMSTEC to cooperate on hydrogeological (landslides, floods, etc.) and meteo local phenomena
Environmental Activities at Environmental Activities at CIRACIRA
Agreement topics:
• Development of common
research activities
• Training and exchanging of researchers
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Two CIRA researchers worked 6 months at ESC. They will spend there two months before the end of 2005.
Studies about Earth Simulator Computer :• parallel-vector optimization • execution environment
Analysis of Boundary Conditions (theoretical and numerical) in an atmospheric limited area model
Code analysis of Global Cloud Resolving Model (GCRM) regional version
Studies about numerical and physical schemes of GCRM
Sensitivity studies with GCRM on mesoscale atmospherical phenomena (winter test-case)
Preliminary research Preliminary research activities at ESCactivities at ESC
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Global cloud resolving Global cloud resolving model GCRMmodel GCRM
Equation system
Fully compressible 3D Navier-Stokes (flux form)
non-hydrostatic, shallow atmosphere approximation,
horizontally homogeneous basic state at rest and dry.
Prognostic variables horizontal and vertical wind component, temperature, pressure perturbation, density perturbation
Grid System
horizontal Yin–Yang grid, spherical coordinate system (Kageyama and Sato 2002)
vertical Terrain following coordinate system (Gal-Chen z* coordinate)
Spatial horizontal
Discretization vertical
Arakawa-C, 5th UDM for advection term (Wicker and Shamarock 2002), 2nd order FDM for others;
Lorenz staggering grid, 2nd order FDM
Time integration HE-VI. Time splitting with RK 2/3/4 (large time step) and Forward-Backward (small time step)
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Global cloud resolving Global cloud resolving modelmodel
Parallelization 2D decomposition; “flat parallelization” by MPI
Resolution horizontal 11 km and 5.5 km
vertical 32 layers (height: 30 km)
Numerical stabilization Divergence damping,
Rayleigh damping for momentum
Cloud microphysics with mixed phases
cloud water and rain; cloud ice, snow and graupel (Reisner-1998)
Convection scheme (11km)
Kain-Fritsch
Subgrid scale mixing Lilly and Smagorinsky (1965)
Surface fluxes Blackadar (1979)
Soil Process Simple bucket model (Manabe, Strickler, 1965)
Lateral Boundary(for regional version)
Sponge type boundary (Davies, 1976)
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Model validationModel validation
The scale is mm/36hr
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Earth Simulator (ES) Earth Simulator (ES) SystemSystem
Based on NEX SX/6, ES currently is the 4th in the top500 list (www.top500.org).
FEATURES:• Vectorial SM-MIMD • 640 nodes (8 CPUs per node, 5120 CPUs)• 8 Gflops per CPU of peak performance (8*8*640=41 Tflops total)• 10 TB of main memory
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CIRA Interests in COSMOCIRA Interests in COSMOAccording to CIRA background, main interests are in Numerical and Physical Modelling (WG2 and WG3)
Example of possible contribution activities for the next year (after ourparticipation to this meeting) :
WG2-Collaboration in testing of different physical interfaces in LM_Z-Contribution to R-K case studies-Contribution to evaluation of overall performances of LM_Z
WG3-Parameters tuning for validation of new code developments (e.g. convection- turbulence schemes)-Performing sensitivity studies in order to investigate model deficiencies in the precipitation forecast
Available manpower for 2006: 2 FTE
CIRA contribution (including other possible activities) will be coordinated and discussed with Italian representatives in COSMO
CIRA will request to the COSMO STC (via UGM) the LM code
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Our activities in COSMOOur activities in COSMO
Pier Luigi Vitagliano
(WG2 - WG3)
Gabriella Ceci
(WG 2)
Paola Mercogliano
(WG 3)
Pasquale Schiano
(WG2 - WG6)
CIRA people attending the COSMO General Meeting
COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
COSMO 7° General Meeting, Zurich 20-23 September 2005
Earth Simulator System Earth Simulator System
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Moreover, some details about ES system were analyzed:
parallel optimization on a vector machine
execution environment
FEATURES
- 2 identical overlapping components- each component consists of lat-lon grids- no singular pole points - easy parallelization and vectorialization