HDCRS Working Group

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Introduction

Welcome to the summer school organized by the High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing (HDCRS) Working Group. HDCRS is part of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), in particular of the Earth Science Informatics (ESI) Technical Committee.

This school is the perfect venue to network with students and young professionals, as well as senior researcher and professors who are world-renowned leaders in the field of remote sensing and work on interdisciplinary research with high performance computing, cloud computing, quantum computing and parallel programming models with specialized hardware technologies.

Impressions from previous years

Testimonials

What the participants said

"I think the summer school was a great experience overall. It gave me a good impression that I should invest time in exploring the capabilities of high performance computing as EO data collection and technology continues to expand."
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"Great summer school, will definitely recommend it to others! Also I just want to add somewhere that the catering was amazing, as well as the welcome dinner :)"
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"Thanks for organizing such a wonderful summer school, insightful. Kudos!"
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"Thanks a lot for this amazing summer school in Iceland!"

HDCRS Summer School 2023 Participants

Research topics

Lecture topics and instructors

Opening

Instructors

Content of the lecture

Supercomputing and Distributed Computing

Instructors

Content of the lecture

Specialized Hardware Computing

Instructors

Content of the lecture

Quantum Computing

Instructors

Content of the lecture

Get excited for the

Agenda (2024)

June 4, 2024

Lecture Material

Speakers: Dora Blanco Heras (CiTIUS - University of Santiago de Compostela), Lois Orosa (CESGA), Gabriele Cavallaro (Forschungszentrum Jülich and University of Iceland), Bertrand Le Saux, Alvaro Moreno Martínez (University of València, Google), Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Google)

09:30 - 10:00 (CEST)

Welcome at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Opening of the School

10:00 - 10:30 (CEST)

CESGA: High Performance and Disruptive Computing

10:30 - 11:00 (CEST)

IEEE GRSS and Activities of HDCRS Working Group

11:00 - 11:30 (CEST)

Break

11:30 - 12:00 (CEST)

Quantum Computing for Earth Observation (QC4EO): Advances and Challenges in Generative AI and Quantum Neural Networks

12:00 - 13:00 (CEST)

Google Earth Engine for Earth Observation

13:00 - 14:30 (CEST)

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 (CEST)

Google Earth Engine for Earth Observation

15:30 - 16:00 (CEST)

Break

16:00 - 17:00 (CEST)

Google Earth Engine for Earth Observation

20:30 - 22:30 (CEST)

Social Dinner (Casa de Xantar O Dezaseis)

June 5, 2024

Lecture Material

Speakers: Manil Maskey (NASA), Gabriele Cavallaro (Forschungszentrum Jülich and University of Iceland), Iksha Gurung, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian and Rajat Shinde (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Thomas Brunschwiler and Carlos Gomes (IBM Research), Alexandre Strube (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

09:30 - 09:50 (CEST)

IBM and NASA collaboration for foundation models Open Science, collaboration, geospatial foundation model, LLMs

09:50 - 10:20 (CEST)

Development and timeline of FM that was published

10:20 - 10:50 (CEST)

Prithvi-Geospatial and Prithvi-WxC model overview

10:50 - 11:00 (CEST)

MLCommons Geo-Croissant Overview

11:00 - 11:30 (CEST)

Break

11:30 - 12:00 (CEST)

Advancing Geoscience through Large-Scale AI with Supercomputing for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

12:00 - 13:00 (CEST)

Environment setup, access, dataset preparation

13:00 - 14:30 (CEST)

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 (CEST)

Fine-tuning based on datasets in Hugging Face and the custom datasets people might be bringing

15:30 - 16:00 (CEST)

Break

16:00 - 17:00 (CEST)

Deployment and interactions

19:30 - 20:30 (CEST)

Guided Tour of the Old Town

June 6, 2024

Lecture Material

Speakers: Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee and Aashka Trivedi (IBM Research), Iksha Gurung and Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

09:30 - 10:00 (CEST)

Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) for Science

10:00 - 11:00 (CEST)

Environment setup, Encoder model finetuning

11:00 - 11:30 (CEST)

Break

11:30 - 13:00 (CEST)

Prompting and Decoder Fine-tuning

13:00 - 14:30 (CEST)

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 (CEST)

Stitching everything together, Deployment

15:30 - 16:00 (CEST)

Break

16:00 - 17:00 (CEST)

Agentic Workflows and Chaining

18:30 - 19:30 (CEST)

Guided tour to the Galician Supercomputing Center

June 7, 2024

Lecture Material

Speakers: Artur Miroszewski and Grzegorz Czelusta (Jagiellonian University)

09:30 - 11:00 (CEST)

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

11:00 - 11:30 (CEST)

Break

11:30 - 13:00 (CEST)

Introduction to Quantum Computation

13:00 - 14:30 (CEST)

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 (CEST)

Quantum Machine Learning

15:30 - 16:00 (CEST)

Break

16:00 - 17:00 (CEST)

Quantum Algorithms for Remote Sensing

Introducing

Organizers

GRSS ESI TC/HDCRS WG: Dora Blanco Heras, Rocco Sedona, Iksha Gurung, Manil Maskey, Gabriele Cavallaro
CiTIUS - University of Santiago de Compostela
‍Simulation and Data Lab Remote Sensing (University of Iceland)

Information

Information overview

Date and time

Starts 4 June, 2024
Ends 7 June, 2024
Central European Summer Time (CEST)

Registration

Start date: 01 January 2024
‍End date: 29 February 2024
The school is free of charge

Contact and Support

Contact person: Dora Blanco Heras and Gabriele Cavallaro
Email for questions: hdcrs.school@gmail.com

Venue

Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Edificio Emprendia
Avenida do Mestre Mateo, 2,
15706 Santiago de Compostela

Participation grants

The summer school will welcome up to 30 students. There will be approximately 10 participation grants awarded.

Slides and Recordings

The lectures will be recorded and made available online through the GRSS YouTube channel. Course material will be available after the school on the GRSS website.

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FAQs

How much do I need to pay to participate?

Participation at the HDCRS School is free of charge. However, getting to and leaving the location can be costly. Please inform yourself ahead of the time to find out whether you have sufficient funds to join.

How much is the participation grant?

The participation grant will be a fixed amount of $800. The school will not provide additional funds, such as a daily allowance. Therefore, you are not required to collect and submit any receipts.

How will the participation grants be awarded?

Participation grants will be awarded based on a combination of factors including geographical location, membership in a disadvantaged group, academic excellence, and background in relevant topics. Our goal is to ensure a diverse set of participants from various backgrounds and experiences.

When and how the participation grant will be paid to you:

The participation grant payment will be made after the School. Detailed instructions will be provided to the grantees. Grantees are not required to collect and submit any receipts.

Will I receive a certificate of attendance?

Yes, you will receive the certificate of attendance after a succesful completion of the School. You will not need to request it. It will be sent to you automatically after a few weeks.

Can I participate online?

No. This is an in-person event only. Videos of the lectures will be upload to GRSS YouTube channel a few weeks after the school is over.

How much is the social dinner?

All attendees will be invited free of charge to the social dinner.

Are coffee breaks and lunches included?

Yes. All coffee breaks and lunches are provided to the participants free of charge directly in the school room.

Still have questions?

Contact person: Prof. Gabriele Cavallaro
Email for questions: hdcrs.school@gmail.com

Discover the past

Past summer schools

29 May - 1 June, 2023

Reykjavik, Iceland

HDCRS Summer School 2023

The HDCRS Summer School 2023 included lectures on cloud-based geospatial big data analysis, hyperspectral technology, European HPC strategies, data science, analytics platforms, geospatial foundation models, HPC and EO software ecosystems, quantum computing, and quantum technologies for Earth Observation.

30 May 2022 - 2 Jun 2022

University of Iceland / Online

HDCRS Summer School 2022

HDCRS Summer School 2022 included lectures on Supercomputing and Distributed Computing, Specialized Hardware Computing and Quantum computing for Earth Observation.

31 May - 3 June 2021

Online

HDCRS Summer School 2021

First edition of the HDCRS Summer School took place online in 2021.