Researcher reflections: tips for navigating your supercomputing journey

New Zealand eScience Infrastructure(NeSI) designs, builds, and operates a shared national platform of advanced computing resources and data services. All researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand have access to NeSI’s platforms. Through NeSI, researchers can access high-capacity CPUs, GPUs and high memory nodes; tailored software environments; expertise in research software and data science engineering; and skills training in computational  tools and approaches. NeSI enables researchers to investigate large, unique, or complex projects more easily, quickly, and accurately.  To learn more, get in touch: info@nesi.org.nz.

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Researchers share how they've learned to use high performance computing (HPC) with confidence.

<p>NeSI’s first research spotlight webinar is a panel discussion. Four researchers will share how they navigated the ups and downs of learning high performance computing.  Our panelists will share how they first got started, what they found most challenging about the learning process, and how learning to use supercomputers changed the way they approach research.  </p><h2>Our Panelists</h2><ul><li>Andrew Pauling from the University of Washington</li></ul><p>I am currently in my third year of a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. My research focuses on using climate models to understand aspects of how the polar regions interact with and affect the global climate. In particular I have used climate models, running on HPC systems, to study the effect of Antarctic topography changes on climate, and to test the feasibility of proposed geoengineering schemes to save Arctic sea ice. This kind of modelling research is only possible with the use of supercomputers.
</p><p>I got started with HPC during a summer research internship following the completion of my undergraduate degree in the Department of Physics at the University of Otago. I used a state-of-the-art climate model, running on the now decommissioned Pan cluster at the University of Auckland, to study the effect of freshwater in the Southern Ocean on sea ice. I did this research, and my subsequent BSc(Hons) and MSc at Otago, under the guidance of Professor Cecilia Bitz, a climate modeller from the University of Washington in the US, who was visiting my supervisors Dr Inga Smith and Professor Pat Langhorne that summer. I am now a PhD student in her group, running climate models on the Cheyenne supercomputer, managed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 
</p><ul><li>Dr. Manpreet Dhami from Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research</li></ul><p>Dr. Manpreet Dhami is a researcher and capability leader at Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Manpreet's background in ecology and training in molecular biology allows her to leverage genomic tools to not only experimentally address questions central to ecology, but to understand the genetic mechanisms that explain them.</p><ul><li>Dr. Jo Lane from the University of Waikato</li></ul><p>Jo Lane is a computational chemist at the University of Waikato and has been involved with NeSI since the early days of BestGRID. He teaches a novel postgraduate paper in Scientific Supercomputing, which is specifically targetted at research students in science who need to run computationally-demanding simulations but have no prior background in computer science.</p><ul><li>Dr. Inga Smith from the University of Otago</li></ul><p>Dr. Inga Smith is a physicist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, where she researches how sea ice forms when the ocean freezes, and how this will change in the future. She lectures environmental physics and subjects that relate to climate change (e.g., fluid mechanics and thermodynamics) at the University of Otago.</p><h2>Who is this webinar for?</h2><p>This webinar is for researchers who want to use high performance computing but don't know where to begin or how to overcome some of the initial challenges.  Researchers from all domains are welcome to attend and we encourage you to bring a friend/ colleague or student. </p><h2>More information</h2><p>If you have any questions or would like more information about this session, please email <a href="mailto:training@nesi.org.nz" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">training@nesi.org.nz</a>. </p><p><a href="http://eepurl.com/grV9if" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Subscribe to the NeSI training mailing list</a> to stay updated about future training opportunities.</p>

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