HiDALGO2 advances how High-Performance Computing (HPC) can solve major global and environmental challenges. As true progress in this domain relies on collaboration, the consortium has been working together with CASTIEL 2 and contributing on the HPC in Europe Portal, showcasing how European Centres of Excellence (CoEs) unite to manage natural and man-made hazards. Following the successful conclusion of the CASTIEL 2 project, this unified supercomputing gateway continues to be actively maintained and operated under the successor framework, CASTIEL 3.
A success story published on the portal outlines how advanced computer simulations have become an indispensable toolbox for emergency preparedness. When disasters like floods, wildfires, or severe pollution events strike, “urgent computing” workflows allow authorities to quickly fire up case-specific models and issue timely warnings.
HiDALGO2’s Core Contributions
As highlighted in the EuroHPC overview, HiDALGO2 provides critical software applications and workflows targeted at atmospheric, urban, and wildfire hazards:
– Urban Air Quality: Our Urban Air Project workflow allows cities to analyze and predict local pollution dispersion and wind comfort. This was successfully demonstrated in a high-resolution computation covering the entire city of Stockholm.
– Wildfire Behavior: The HiDALGO2 Wildfire workflow assesses real-time risks and potential impacts induced by fire behavior specifically near wildland-urban interface (WUI) zones, helping civil protection teams safeguard communities.
– Water Pollution: Our specialized Material Transport in Water application simulates how pollutants move through river systems, aiding in quick environmental containment.
By integrating these specialised workflows into the broader European supercomputing landscape, we are collectively moving toward systematic, routine support for disaster mitigation.
We invite our community to explore the full suite of European HPC tools—including earthquake, tsunami, and volcanic eruption simulations developed by fellow CoEs like ChEESE-2P and ESiWACE-3.
The original article was published under the CASTIEL 2 Coordination and Support Action.
