In a previous blog, we discussed the performance of different programming models—SYCL, OpenMP, CUDA, and HIP—when applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In this article we will delve deeper into these three languages, comparing their pros and cons, installation requirements, and performance using a simple vector addition example. GPU programming CUDA has been the go-to […]
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Registration is now open for our upcoming Autumn workshop during the 15th PPAM 2024 Conference (International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics). You can now register via this link to our “Workshop on advancements of global challenges applications” (AGCA), featuring well respected researchers in an engaging presentation schedule. Our entire list of sessions is
HiDALGO2 project together with CIRCE and SEAVEA projects organised a joint Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) hackathon in June 2024. It focused on enabling Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) for global challenge applications (e.g., those used in HiDALGO2 and CIRCE) using the SEAVEA toolkit (SEAVEAtk). Along with other participants from several countries, HiDALGO2 partners participated in
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New York: the Financial District, Battery Park, and the southern tip of Manhattan Island, where the Hudson and East Rivers converge Roadmap and Recent Achievements The HiDALGO2 project is progressing steadily, with significant advancements in urban building energy simulations and CI/CD methodologies. The recent paper of our partner, Cemosis, Ktirio Urban Building: A Computational Framework
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are critical for understanding and predicting complex fluid dynamics phenomena that are often difficult or impossible to capture by experimental methods alone. An example of the active use of CFD simulation to aid in the understanding of a complex flow scenario is demonstrated in this project, which marks the first
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The 2024 InPEX participants – Photo credit: Neovia Innovation An innovative effort to promote global cooperation and co-design—crucial in the path to and beyond Exascale computing—is the International Post-Exascale Project (InPEx) workshops. In the current fast-paced world of Exascale computing, these seminars seek to close the gaps between different national and international initiatives. These include
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The HiDALGO2 project partners hosted the meeting in Stuttgart, Germany on the 3rd and 4th of June. The meeting consisted of detailed and interesting presentations of the partners’ work activities and next steps. On the first day of the meeting, the project coordinator, Marcin Lawenda from Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) welcomed the partners
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Dennis Hoppe presenting HiDALGO2 at ISC High Performance 2024 The ISC High Performance 2024 event in Hamburg, Germany, has been a melting pot for innovators, researchers, and industry leaders in high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning, data analytics, and quantum computing. This year’s conference, held from May 12 to 16, 2024 has gathered approximately 3,000 attendees
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Recent Developments The HiDALGO2 project Urban Building pilot continues to make significant strides in enhancing our urban building modeling capabilities and user interfaces. Here’s a brief overview of the latest advancements: Modeling Enhancements – Multiple Storey Building Support: We’ve introduced support for multiple storey buildings in our models, allowing for more detailed and accurate simulations
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Hardware acceleration, especially through Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), is vital for enhancing computational speed and efficiency. GPUs are designed for parallel processing, enabling them to handle multiple data sets simultaneously. This makes them highly efficient at rendering graphics, image processing, and machine learning tasks. In contrast, CPUs process operations sequentially, making GPUs faster at computations.
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A. Complex-Geometry 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics with Automatic Load Balancing, Fluids | (8(5):147, 2023) This paper introduces a new open-source code, Xyst (https://xyst.cc). The goal of Xyst is to simulate engineering problems with a production-quality code that is extensible and maintainable, using hardware resources efficiently, even for problems with unpredictable, heterogeneous, and dynamic compute-load distribution.
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The last two months have been very active for our partner, the Széchenyi István University from Hungary. In March 2024, Kornyei Laszlo from Széchenyi István Egyetem had the chance to introduce our project, HiDALGO2 at the “HPC Matching Day”, organised by the Hungarian Governmental Agency for IT Development (KIFÜ) in Budapest. More specifically, he had
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Climate protection through science The symposium “Science Goes Society” held in the Municipality of Sersheim in Germany provided a great chance to discuss science and climate protection with public authorities. Several 3D simulations were used on a giant LED wall by our partner, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), to show how local villages, cities, forests,
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About artificial intelligence in the energy industry How does unmanned meter storage work? Do Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) also work well in the energy industry? How does nuclear fusion determine the future of energy? These are just a few of the topics that were discussed during AI EnergINN – a conference organised
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On May 7th, 2024, Christophe Prud’homme from our partner partner, Cemosis (University of Strasbourg), will present their experience using CI/CD within our CoE. He will start with the presentation of HiDALGO2 on May 7 at 2 p.m. This is an event taking place in the context of the EuroHPC JU CI/CD activity and it is
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HiDALGO2 project together with CIRCE and SEAVEA projects organise a joint hackathon that focuses on enabling Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) for global challenge applications (e.g., those used in HiDALGO2 and CIRCE) using the SEAVEA toolkit (SEAVEAtk). Any High-Performance Computer application researcher is invited to join, irrespective of their source domain. Specially EuroHPC JU
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Our partner, David Caballero from MeteoGrid had the opportunity to explain some of the fire-atmosphere interaction simulations, carried out in the HiDALGO2 project during the XIV edition of the course on operations and safety in urban-forest interface fires, held at the National School of Civil Protection (Ministry of the Interior of Spain). The audience included
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Photo credit: ICS 2023, https://www.isc-hpc.com HiDALGO2 project participates in the upcoming ISC High Performance 2024 Conference with a presentation taking place during the “Workshop on Readiness of HPC Extreme-scaling Application”. Namely, Harald Koestler from our partner, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU) will speak in a presentation entitled, “Performance portable and scalable particulate flow simulations using
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The 4th Baltic HPC and Cloud Conference in Riga ον April 11-12, 2024 was a good opportunity to to pitch on the HiDALGO2 project. Namely, our partner from HLRS – High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart , Davide Padeletti, participated in a presentation during the “#CoE pitch session. “The conference provided a fantastic platform to discuss advancements
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Our project HiDALGO2 organises a workshop during this autumn Conference at Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 08 – 11, 2024. The deadlines for papers submission for the AGCA workshop have been extended. The submission of papers is May 22, 2024 and the notification of acceptance is July 3, 2024. The workshop is entitled “Workshop on advancements
What does HiDALGO2 stand for? HiDALGO2 stands for HPC and Big Data Technologies for Global Challenges. This means that the project integrates the technologies of High Performance Computing, High Performance Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to provide solutions and innovations for major environmental issues. What is the vision of HiDALGO2? The vision of the project
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28 March 2024 On March 28, 2024, our partners organise a hybrid event about Scientific Visualisation Simulation. More specifically, we will learn more about Dynamic Energy Simulation (DES) followed by a simulation workflow and some of the HiDALGO2 Project’s advances. Participants will further learn how to build and generate Building Energy Models (BEM) from 3D
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The EuroHPC Summit 2024, organised by our funder, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, took place on March 18-21, 2024. More than 600 interested representatives from academia, industry, and public administration registered for the event. Α diverse programme consisting of plenary talks, panels, parallel sessions, and workshops filled the 4-day milestone event for the HPC community. Our
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EURO HPC SUMMIT 2024 (https://www.eurohpcsummit.eu/) HiDALGO2 project is glad to join actively the EuroHPC Summit 2024 Summit on Tuesday 19 March with a presentation and a poster session. Our presentation will take place at 11:30-13:00 within a session entitled “Centres of Excellence: Deploying Flagship Codes on EuroHPC Supercomputers”. Our project coordinator Dr Marcin Lawenda from
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Very recently we witnessed major forest fires destroying large parts of areas across Latin America. Namely, in the 5th Region in Chile the Las Tablas-Lago Peñuelas fire, in the Valparaíso-Viña del Mar area, claimed the lives of 133 people and destroyed several thousand homes. The fire started on the 2nd of February 2024 and the
MeteoGrid (MTG), HiDALGO2 partner in Spain had the opportunity to showcase the progress in visual simulation and supercomputing applied to wildfires within the framework of our project at the Conference on Wildfires and Natural Risks (RIyRN) that took place in January 2023 in Seville, Spain. This significant conference brought together over 170 attendees, including top
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The HiDALGO2 team is glad to have participated actively in the HiPEAC conference at the Science Congress Center last January 2024, in Munich, with the joint workshop “Towards reliable Digital Twin: advancing applications and tools’ capabilities for Global Challenges”. It was organised together with ESiWACE3, the Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate
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Our campaign leading up to “Woman in Science Day” on February 11, 2024, persists with an interview featuring Vasiliki Kostoula, a PhD student affiliated with the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), a key partner in the HiDALGO2 project. We delved into her engagement in the project, the varied roles she has undertaken, her
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Credited as one of the first computer scientists, Ada Lovelace saw the potential of computers a century before any were ever built (Source: Advanced Science News) As the “Woman in Science Day” on February 11, 2024, draws near, we’ve launched a collection of articles designed to acquaint you with inspiring women leading initiatives like HiDALGO2.
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Our initiative leading up to “Women in Science Day” on February 11, 2024, continues with an interview featuring Ioanna Tasou, a Ph.D. candidate affiliated with the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab) at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), a pivotal partner in the HiDALGO2 project. We explored her involvement in the project, the diverse
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As we approach “Woman in Science Day” on February 11, 2024, we have initiated a series of articles that will introduce you to accomplished women spearheading projects such as HiDALGO2. This series will highlight their efforts in applying High-Performance Computing (HPC) to tackle environmental and societal challenges. We inquired about their project involvement, the diverse
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10 September 2024 PPMAP 2024 Conference (September 08-11, 2024) Ostrava, Czech Republic HiDALGO2 project partners will organise a workshop entitled “Workshop on advancements of global challenges applications” (AGCA) on 10 September 2024, during the 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS (PPAM 2024 Conference) that will be held at Ostrava, Czech Republic, September
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