Events

On October 22nd, the VI Technical Conference on Wildfire Fighting took place at the Forest Fire Area headquarters of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) in Spain. The event was organized by the Spanish Association of Fire Protection Industries (Tecnifuego), the Professional Association of Fire Technicians (APTB), and the Spanish

The coordinator of the HiDALGO2 project had the chance to participate in the event “Becoming a zettabytes economy. Advanced data centres impact & what Beyond?” this October. Marcin Lawenda presented a talk titled “Large-Scale Environmental Simulations as a Step Towards Digital Twins: The Perspective of a European Scientific Project.” He also participated in a panel

On October 3rd and 4th, the 1st International Congress on Wildfire Prevention in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) was held, organized by the National University of the Comechingones, Argentina. At this important event, David Caballero (MeteoGrid) had the opportunity to deliver a detailed presentation on the new reality of wildfires and the importance of incorporating fire-atmosphere

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On December 15, 2023, a meeting of the Task Force “Integration and Convergence HPC – Big Data – Artificial Intelligence” working group of the Big Data Value Association was held. During this meeting, the HiDALGO2 project coordinator, Marcin Lawenda, presented the main areas of our project’s activities. The presentation focused on aspects related to managing

4 & 5 December 2023 Just a bit before the winter holidays, the partners of HiDALGO2 joined for their six-month plenary meeting on the project’s sum up and progress. This virtual gathering unfolded in two days, the 4th and 5th of December 2023, and was not just a meeting but a symphony of discussions, bringing

HiDALGO2 was thrilled to be among the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s European projects that took part in one of the largest annual international HPC forums, the “International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis” or SC23 in Denver, USA, on 12-17 November 2023. Read about our key takeaways and the experiences of our partners who

In the upcoming joint workshop of HiDALGO2 and ESiWACE3, “Towards reliable Digital Twin: advancing applications and tools capabilities for Global Challenges” on 17/01/2024 at the HiPEAC conference, there will be four segments covering application, performance, uncertainty quantification, and portal, which in turn will be demonstrated in 7 sessions. You can see below the analytical information

HiDALGO2 Project actively participated in a discussion on the development of HPC connectivity solutions at the EuroHyPerCon event that took place on 22nd November, 2023. The title was “HPC connectivity needs: Current State and Future Vision” and our project coordinator Marcin Lawenda was one of the panelists.  The workshop “Hyperconnectivity for European HPC Supercomputers –

The HiDALGO2 team is very excited to participate in the HiPEAC conference this January, in Munich, with the joint workshop “Towards reliable Digital Twin: advancing applications and tools capabilities for Global Challenges”. This is not the first time the project participates as the first edition of the HiDALGO2 project participated in the HiPEAC conference in