Consortium
The composition of the HiDALGO2 consortium is characterised by its interdisciplinary nature, resulting from the involvement of teams from various European countries (8 partners from 7 countries). In terms of the areas of science, the participants represent the following fields: mathematicians, meteorologists, hydrologists, physicists, specialists in modelling natural phenomena, parallel and distributed processing, optimization, co-design, data analytics and machine learning. All participants are specialists in their field, which is confirmed by numerous publications and involvement in national and European projects. The synergy effect resulting from the multidisciplinary on the one hand and the experience of team members on the other makes the HiDALGO2 consortium more than capable enough to achieve the project goals.
PSNC – Coordinator
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) is affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. PSNC serves as an academic HPC centre and a broadband network services provider as well as application and services developer and provider. PSNC employs about 470 people in four divisions: HPC and data infrastructure, networking, applications and networking services. PSNC is a HPC Center, Systems and Network Security Center as well as R&D Center of Future Internet, e-Infrastructure, Digital Content. It has an active computer science research group working e.g. on: middleware, tools and methods for HPC and distributed computing, resource management, scheduling, large scale applications, user management and accounting, infrastructure security mechanisms and policies, energy aware scheduling, grid and cloud management tools, HPC and distributed storage architectures. PSNC is also the operator of Polish National Research and Education Network PIONIER, which is connected to the GEANT2 network, Operator of Poznań Metropolitan Area Network – POZMAN. In particular, PSNC has been for many years strongly involved in supporting the Fusion community through different initiatives like EUFORIA, EGI_Inspire, EURATOM and Eurofusion (nowadays in H2020). It has been coordinating 12 international EU projects (e.g. DORII, RINGRID, GRIDLAB, Phosphorus, Porta Optica, CoolAmAll) and participated in 300+ European and national projects: PRACE, EUDAT, IGE, NEXPRES, EGI_INSPIRE, etc. PSNC is the PSNC-HUAWEI Innovation Center, Microsoft Innovation Center, CUDA Research Centre with NVidia and the official Cisco Networking Regional Academy.
Role in the project
PSNC is the coordinator of the HiDALGO2 project and as such is responsible for the overall management of the project, including the organisation and supervision of the works as well as the smooth flow of information and data between partners and external entities. In addition, PSNC is one of the main technical partners and participates in a variety of tasks and work packages. Specifically, PSNC is leading the task on innovation in HPC technology to bridge the gap between software-centric optimizations and hardware-centric co-design. In addition, PSNC activity is focused on the development of HPC and HPDA components for pilot applications for the Exascale era, with particular emphasis on software scalability and reproducibility. PSNC provides access to computing resources and storage necessary for the proper conduct of development and deployment tasks. Besides, PSNC is one of the providers of use case applications in the area of Renewable Energy Sources, whose main goal is to progress in the renewable energy production estimation (EPE). This will be achieved by applying the Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) study in the simulation modules, mainly for input parameters, and by carrying out analyses on a larger scale.
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HLRS
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) was established in 1996 as the first German national high-performance computing center. As a research institution affiliated with the University of Stuttgart and a founding member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, HLRS provides computing resources for academic users and industry. HLRS operates state of the art high-performance computing systems and provides advanced training in HPC programming and simulation. The center also conducts research to address key problems facing the future of supercomputing. Among HLRS’s areas of expertise are parallel programming, numerical methods for HPC, visualization, cloud computing, high-performance data analytics, and artificial intelligence. Users of HLRS computing systems are active across a wide range of disciplines, with an emphasis on computational engineering and applied science.
Role in the project
HLRS is technically leading HiDALGO2 to develop new methods, algorithms, and software for HPC and HPDA, with a focus on systems science applications to address important global challenges. Efficient integration of the software components developed in HiDALGO2, including tools, libraries, and pilot applications, is also a goal of HLRS. Another task is the deployment of a VVUQ (Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification) framework on supercomputing infrastructures for sensitivity analyses of the codes used in HiDALGO2. Finally, HLRS is leading the training efforts of HiDALGO2 to bring communities together and foster the exchange of knowledge and expertise, especially on the topics of global challenges.
ATOS
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with over 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of over € 11 billion. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information technology space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education as well as multicultural and pluralistic approaches to research that contribute to scientific and technological excellence.
Atos Research & Innovation (ARI) is the R&D hub for emerging technologies and a key reference for the whole Atos group.
Role in the project
- Responsible of the area of data collection and management
- Provision of the main orchestration solution for workflows (based on Croupier)
- Responsible of Quality Management in the project
SZE
Széchenyi István University (SZE) is a dynamically developing higher education institution located in Győr, Hungary, 100 km from both Budapest and Vienna, in the centre of a prosperous industrial environment. The university has a strong connection to industry with many collaborative projects and industry-focused teaching curricula and research. SZE has with 14,000 students affiliated to 9 faculties in the fields of engineering, informatics, law, economics, health, sports, education, social sciences, agriculture and performance art.
The Mathematical Simulation and Optimization Research Group (MathSO) has been established in 2009 to perform research and innovation activities with developing and applying mathematical key technologies in combination with high performance computing. The research group is a member of HU-MATHS-IN (Hungarian Network for Industry and Innovation), and participated in European research projects such as the H2020 EINFRA project MSO4SC, and the H2020 HiDALGO project.
Role in the project
The SZE team is a member of the HiDALGO2 CoE and is responsible for the data and ethics management. For the technology development of the CoE, SZE is the task leader of the development and provider of the main technology of the HiDALGO2 dashboard and the visualisation.
As leader of WP5 Tackling Global Challenges, SZE will coordinate the development and integration of the 5 use cases to the HiDALGO2 platforms and will lead the exploitation of synergies among the HiDALGO2 use cases with development of couplings of simulations and joint research and exploitation. Within WP5, SZE is developing the Urban Air Project use case, including several service endpoints: Urban Air Quality (UAP.AQ), Comfort (UAP.Comf), Climate (UAP.Clim), Planning (UAP.Plan) and Reporting (UAP.Rep).
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MeteoGRID
MeteoGrid is a Spanish SME that has the highest operational capacity on climate and meteorological services, as evidenced by almost 20 years of providing high added value meteorological services, including the design, implementation and operation of Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Weather Forecasting Systems (WFS). These services are provided both to private entities and to national and regional public administrations, which often require redundancies in operational equipment to ensure full availability. These services have been developed thanks to the participation of an interdisciplinary team, with experts in meteorology, natural hazards, GIS and cutting-edge computer developments. All our developments are in open- source software, and our R&I staff is gender balanced.
Role in the project
Meteogrid’s main role in HiDALGO2 is to carry on the Wildfire pilot / use cases and to provide reliable high resolution meterological forecasts to other pilots. This will be achieved by coupling weather data and models at different scales, such as global forecast models( GFS, ECMWF, ICON), mesoscale forecast models (WRF) , numerical fluido-dynamic models of air movement (Open Foam), coupled fire-atmosphere models (FireTec, Clark), perturbation of the air flow and the local effect of buildings (hard geometric bodies) and vegetation (fuzzy porous media) solution through WFDS for fire, smoke and embers propagation, and advanced visualization tools as Unreal Engine 4 (UE4).
CEMOSIS
Cemosis (Center for modeling and simulation in Strasbourg), hosted by IRMA (Institute for Advanced Mathematical Research) – Strasbourg university, was created in 2013 in order to serve as an interface between research in applied mathematics and industry and other research disciplines. Indeed, Cemosis offers its expertise in modeling, simulation and optimization to companies and other research disciplines to help them address their challenges. Cemosis is organized in three poles :
- Projects : for collaboration with companies and research actors of different fields.
- Hardware and software : computing resources, simulation software (Feel++)
- Training : Scientific computing and mathematics of information Master’s degree, University of Strasbourg
Since its creation, the platform has collaborated on research and industrial projects, in subjects as varied as physics, medical science or environmental sciences, and with companies ranging from SMEs to large corporations, such as EDF or Airbus. Cemosis is also committed to the technology transfer of its research results, as in the Ktirio project, which aims to develop a Cloud platform for the energy simulation of buildings. Unistra via Cemosis and IRMA is leading the project on methods and algorithms for Exascale within the French initiative for Exascale Computing NumPEx (https://numpex.fr).
Role in the project
Cemosis participates in the Hidalgo2 project with the Urban Buildings use case, whose objectives are:
- Predict energy consumption, thermal comfort and indoor air quality at both
- Building scale, and
- Urban scale
- Integrate the building stock in its environment:
- Couple with UAP model
- contribution of the building stock (heat and GHG, NOx) to the outdoor air quality model (UAP)
- improved boundary conditions of the building model (wind speed, outdoor temperature)
- Couple with UAP model
- Improved radiative heat transfer on buildings’ envelope, through a better estimation of solar shading
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ICCS
The Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS) is a non-profit Academic Research Body associated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (SECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). ICCS participates in HiDALGO2 through the Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab), one of the largest research laboratories of the Computer Science Department of SECE. CSLab possesses strong expertise in computer architecture and large scale parallel (HPC) and distributed systems (Big Data, Cloud and P2P infrastructures). Its members perform research and development both at the higher level of algorithmic design and applications’ optimization as well as in the assembly and operation of such systems with a tradition spanning more than three decades in the implementation, optimization and operation of systems at all scales.
Role in the project
ICCS role in HiDALGO2:
- WP3 leader
- T3.1, T3.2, T4.2, T4.3 leader
- Organising and leading the benchmarking, profiling and optimisation of the HiDALGO2 pilots
- Organising and leading the provision of High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) support to the HiDALGO2 pilots.
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Future Needs
Future Needs Management Consulting Ltd is an interdisciplinary socio-technical research and technology development SME. The staff of Future Needs has a long record of successful project management and coordination as well as design and development of digital services, policy evaluation, business development and science communication. Future Needs specialises in shaping the development of technology to best suit the needs of practitioners/end-users. As a team, we bring the latest technology trends and aspects of creativity, (youth) entrepreneurship and start-up mentality to projects we are involved in. We help our clients elicit user requirements for the development of new products and services, we develop R&D roadmaps aiming at product and service commercialisation, and we ensure security standards compliance for services and products we work on before they hit the market. We help our clients from the public and not-for-profit sectors to carry out Impact Assessments and policy evaluation studies, while ensuring secure, ethical and privacy-considerate processes and following the “better regulation guidelines” of the European Commission. Finally, we leverage our relationship with a variety of stakeholders ranging from technical specialists and key industry players to policy-makers and citizen groups when offering dissemination and community-building services. Information technology & telecommunications, education, migration, healthcare, transport, regional development, culture and finance.
Role in the project
In HiDALGO2, Future Needs leads the Outreach, Awareness and Impact Creation work package. The key objective of this work package is oriented on maximizing the impact of the project and ensuring proper communication and dissemination of the project results/offerings and subsequently to raise awareness to the scientific and societal stakeholders. Another key aspect is to ensure the sustainability of the project results once the project is over in correlation with the individual and joint exploitation intentions of the partners. Another key objective of this work package is on community building activities, which already started successfully in HiDALGO, but will be significantly expanded in the successor project.
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FAU – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Established on 4 November 1743 by Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth and expanded from 1769 by Margrave Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität was transferred to the state of Bavaria in 1810. It has been housed in the former margraviate residence in Erlangen since 1818. Today, approximately 38,000 students are enrolled at our FAU campuses in Erlangen, Nuremberg and Fürth. We promote an academic culture of remembrance reflecting the university’s responsibility for its actions in research, teaching and administration. When considering the history of our University, we take a self-critical stance towards our institutionalized academic culture and live up to society’s requirements for transparency. The Faculty of Engineering is divided into six departments: Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. From the Computer Science Department the chair of System Simulation (LSS) is involved in the project.
Role in the project
LSS is involved in multiple roles in this project. It is the developer of the waLBerla and HyTeG codes that are used in the Transport in Water use case and also responsible for the corresponding application. With its strong expertise in software and performance engineering and in numerical methods, LSS also contributes to work on efficient and scalable Exascale algorithms.