Introduction to ECMWF computing, services and the Meteorological Archival and Retrieval System (MARS)

The aim of this module is to introduce students to ECMWF's basic computing services, both the workstation system (ecgate) and the data storage/archive facility. MARS is the Centre's meteorological data archive. This course is aimed at new users of ECMWF's computer services.

The course will run from the 20th to the 24th February 2017. TIMETABLE: Click on a lecture title to find out more...

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
09:30-11.00	Welcome Anna Ghelli Introduction to computing resources and services High Performance Computing Facility (CRAY), servers, data handling, network (LAN and WAN) and web services Slides Paul Dando	Meteorological Archival and Retrieval System (MARS) Introduction and basic concepts Slides Carsten Maass	Decoding GRIB data Introducing the GRIB format and the tools to inspect and manipulate GRIB data Practical session Slides Solutions Paul Dando	BUFR decoding Introduction to BUFR format and decoding tools Slides tar file for practicals Dominique Lucas	ECaccess ECaccess concepts ECaccess tools : file transfer, web toolkit and monitoring tools Slides Tutorial Dominique Lucas
11:30-13.00	Getting started Working on your Linux desktop and access the Web Slides Carsten Maass ECMWF file systems Introduction to ecgate, HPCF, NFS mounted file systems and practical Slides Carsten Maass	Meteoroloical Archival and Retrieval System (MARS) Basic examples and practical session Carsten Maass	Decoding GRIB data GRIB data: inspection tools GRIB data:manipulation tools Practical session Slides Solutions Paul Dando	Meteorological Archiving and Retrieval System (MARS) Field manipulation with MARS Slides Practical session: Q & A tar file for practicals Dominique Lucas	ECaccess Tutorial Dominique Lucas Time critical applications Introduction to Time Critical Applications: Option 1, 2 and 3 Slides Dominique Lucas Course evaluation - Close
14:00-15:15	ECMWF's File Storage system (ECFS) Introduction to ECFS and its functionalities: store, retrieve, list, delete, ecfsdir Using ECFS in your scripts or cron jobs Practical session Slides Carsten Maass	Compiling environment Compilers, their common options, handling I/O and linking libraries Basic debugging Practical session Slides Xavier Abellan	Decoding GRIB data GRIB data: manipulation tools Fortran90 and Python interface Practical session Slides Solutions Paul Dando	Interpolating model data Why do we need interpolation? Interpolating data and its limitations Slides Solutions Paul Dando
15:45-17:00	Submitting batch jobs Basic concepts Commands: sbatch to ecgate server, sqos (checking queues), job control (squeue, scontrol, scancel) Practical session Slides Solutions Xavier Abellan	Compiling environment Practical session Solutions Xavier Abellan	ODB API What is ODB API? Data structure / file format ODB API SQL ODB MARS Archive and ODB Governance slides Peter Kuchta	Introducing Metview Metview: basic concepts Practical session Slides Iain Russell, Fernando Ii and Sandor Kertesz

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The course will run from the 20th to the 24th February 2017. TIMETABLE: Click on a lecture title to find out more...

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