HPC4E project had three general objectives and a large list of specific technical objectives related with research in each technology.
Below we summarize the achievements in each of the general objectives we planned at the beginning of the project:
1. Several optimizations have been made in existing simulation tools, new numerical methods, well-suited to exascale machines have been developed and tested and several industrial cases in wind, biofuels and oil and gas applications have been solved in state-of-the-art HPC systems and exascale prototypes in Europe and Brazil.
2. Several innovations and developments have been incorporated in production codes at REPSOL, TOTAL and PETROBRAS. New simulation technologies were proved beneficial for Iberdrola (Spain) and ONS (Brazil).
3.The project has Improved the cooperation between the leading research centers in EU and Brazil in HPC. The shared use of supercomputing infrastructures between Brazil and EU successfully continued. This includes the main production computers (MareNostrum in Europe, Santos Dumont and Lobo Carneiro in Brazil) and some exascale prototypes like Mont-Blanc or DEEP and platforms as PlaFRIM. The number of CPU hours used in the project is in Section 1.4.
Over the two years of project, the consortium published a total of 96 scientific publications, and participated in a total of 60 conferences, workshops or seminars disseminating the project. The consortium also organized a total of 2 workshops. It also started and strengthened collaborations with other EU projects, such as NEWA, GEAGAM, Mont-Blanc, DEEP-ER, PRACE and the Centres of Excellence POP and EoCoE. With the aim of building a community around the project, the dissemination team has made every effort to post regular updates on the project’s dedicated LinkedIn channels.
In terms of exploitation, the dissemination and exploitation team has identified the exploitable results of the project and performed initial market analyses. The project results provide a deeper understanding of new algorithms and procedures for the future exascale machines, allowing high fidelity simulations. Better simulations impact directly the knowledge of processes related to wind energy, biofuels and oil & gas.
The exploitation of the results of the HPC4E project is at three levels:
1. Industry: The industrial partners of the project (Total, Repsol, Iberdrola and Petrobras) have had direct access to the innovative ideas and tools of the project and have applied them to their internal software.
2. Scientific community: the outcomes of the research are published in peer-reviewed high impact journals, disseminated in congresses and conferences, and transferred to other European and Brazilian projects related to energy.
3. Society: HPC4E is a project directly related to obtaining and managing more efficiently energetic resources by means of high performance computing. In the long run, this will result in cheaper, cleaner and safer energy production, what has a direct impact on society.
The partners of the consortium have developed and used several in-house software, which collect the innovations generated in this project. Initial market analyses show potential for a commercial exploitation of the application software.
