Data-intensive applications, such as AI training and inference, climate and Earth modeling, or other complex ensembles of simulations in High Performance Computing (HPC), require the development of data management systems (DMS) that can manage huge volumes of data, on the range of peta and exa-scale, and address challenges related to transfer latency minimisation and throughput […]
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The Government of Castilla–La Mancha (JCCLM) held its first operational and safety course on wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires in Toledo from October 20 to 23, 2025, with David Caballero (MeteoGrid) serving as the lead instructor. The training was primarily designed for Castilla–La Mancha’s Environmental Agents, although other emergency-response agencies—including municipal and regional fire services—also took
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David Caballero (MeteoGrid) spoke at the opening session of “Fire Day,” organized by Tecnifuego and CEPREVEN at the Spanish Institute of Engineering in Madrid on November 18th. This annual event brings together Spain’s leading industrial organizations, authorities, and fire-protection associations, serving as a premier forum for sharing experiences, technologies, and methodologies across multiple fields of
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On October 21, the Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) hosted the 7th Technical Conference on Wildland Fires. The event was organized by the Spanish Association of Fire Protection Societies (Tecnifuego), the Professional Association of Fire Technicians (APTB), the Spanish Wildfire Association (ASELF), and MITECO itself. This annual conference brought together wildfire
Written by Christopher Aguilar of HiDALGO2 Dissemination Leader Future Needs. Today’s global challenges are interconnected, each one shaping the next. Climate change fuels more intense wildfires, rapid urbanisation strains our energy grids and pollutes our air, and the shift to renewables introduces new instabilities. Addressing these overlapping crises in turn requires an approach that is integrated, combining expertise across
Join an intensive 3-day online training course by HiDALGO2, in collaboration with NCC Czechia and NCC Germany, and unlock the power of high-performance computing for urban energy modeling. From November 26–28, 2025, this hands-on program will guide participants through advanced techniques for building-level and city-scale energy simulations, using the Ktirio Urban Building framework. Designed for
The path from research to commercialisation is rarely a straight one. Research is, of course, a fundamental driver of innovation. The explosion of AI-enabled products and services that we see today, for instance, was only made possible by the hard work of researchers over decades in computer and linguistics labs across the globe. Conversely, commercial
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A new publication by HiDALGO2 researchers focuses on improving the efficiency of machine learning (ML) workloads in High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
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HiDALGO2 is delighted to announce that three researchers with the project have been invited to guest edit a special issue of the prestigious journal Electronics. Project Coordinator Dr Marcin Lawenda (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center), Dr Harald Köstler (Friedrich-Alexander-University) and Prof. Christophe Prud’homme (University of Strasbourg) will oversee the publication of the special issue under
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Flexible and reproducible HPC benchmarking with feelpp.benchmarking. Automate workflows, track performance, and visualize results with ease.
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The HiDALGO2 Centre of Excellence (CoE) and EuroCC National Competence Center Sweden (ENCCS) in cooperation with CASTIEL 2 are pleased to offer a webinar on May 26 at 13.00 CET with the title: HiDALGO2 COE and ENCCS: Use case with SLB Analys The webinar will be held over Zoom. To register, click here. Abstract: High-resolution
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When on a long distance car trip, do you prioritise speed or fuel efficiency? For most cars, maximum fuel efficiency is achieved at a speed of between 50-80km/h. Travel any faster and you will consume more fuel to reach your destination. Work with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes on high performance computing (HPC) architectures faces
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During the 3-day training, you will learn how to create containers for HiDALGO2 codes and scientific HPC applications and implement CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners, and JacamarCI.
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In what may prove to be a significant milestone in High Performance Computing (HPC), researchers with HiDALGO2 have demonstrated the potential of a new code called Xyst to run efficiently on almost 200,000 CPU cores in parallel. While further validation is necessary, early results are promising and indicate that Xyst may allow certain complex modelling
The paper “AI for Global Challenges: Case Studies in Urban Solar Exposure and Wildfire Management”, developed as part of the HiDALGO2 project was named as one of four “Best Papers” at the the First International Conference on AI-based Systems and Services AISyS 2024. Giorgos Filandrianos of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems at the
The Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia from November 17–22, 2024, drawing approximately 17,000 attendees from around the globe. Known for its blend of cutting-edge research presentations and industry exhibits, the event provided an excellent platform to represent HiDALGO2 and its ongoing work in high-performance computing for societal challenges. Representing HiDALGO2 on
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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11 December 2023 HiDALGO2 was present at the EuroHPC User Day taking place in Brussels, on 11th December 2023 and organised by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. The event hosted more than 50 speakers from different fields that use supercomputer performance to improve the capacity of computing their models. HiDALGO2 was represented by our partner Cemosis,
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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
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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
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