Modernization, Optimization and GPU Porting of Oceanographical transport models
Ocean Sciences, Modeling
Research area
Research activities in oceanographic applications contribute to the improvement of the understanding of the dynamics of the marine hydrodynamic and ecological processes, simulating the oceanographic circulation and considering it for an infinite number of possible applications. Among them, the analysis of consequent local changes in sea-surface height and tidal floodings, temperature heat waves occurrences, sea water stratification, ecological states and biological/chemical cycles, modeling pollutant dispersal and transformation in the environment and ecosystem connectivities, these research activities also give an opportunity to study the spatial and temporal evolution of these environmental conditions coming per example with climate changes, fisheries management plans, ecosystem preservation strategies or marine pollution regulation measures, in order to give useful insights to decision-making operators.
Project goals
The proposed project aims to contribute to the development, modernization, and optimization of scientific open-source codes for Computational Fluid Dynamics in marine environment, biogeochemical transport-reaction, and pollutants transport models, proposing solutions leading to faster and more accurate modeling of the oceanographic and marine environmental processes.
Computational approach
Research activities in oceanographic applications require an increasing need for accuracy and computing productivity, solving problems becoming bigger and obtaining faster solutions. High Performance Computing makes it possible by the constant evolution of the technology, but requires modern source codes re-designed to follow the changing technology. Besides the need for increased accuracy and productivity, the development of modern softwares must face another great challenge by increasing their code performances to reduce computational costs in terms of energy and environmental impact.
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Area of influence of the main river outflows of the northern Adriatic Sea after two months of advection.
Nicola Aladrah
SISSA; OGS
I finished my Master (magistrale) in Theoretical Physics from Homs University (previously Al-Baath University), Syria, in 2022. In August 2023 I obtained my postgraduate diploma in high energy physics from ICTP, Trieste, Italy, after I granted ICTP Diploma scholarship. In the year of 2023 - 2024 I did research with Prof. Pavel Putrov in ICTP. By September 2024 I started the Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC) in SISSA/ICTP where I granted TRIL-ICTP scholarship with sponsorship of OGS.