Project description
Building a low-carbon energy future with the assistance of supercomputing
The transition to a low-carbon energy economy requires a series of transformational mechanisms and support tools. The Energy-oriented Centre of Excellence (EoCoE) in computing applications develops and applies cutting-edge computational methods in its mission to accelerate the transition to the production, storage and management of clean, decarbonised energy. After the successful proof-of-concept phase of EoCoE-I, the EU-funded EoCoE-II project is focusing on five scientific exascale challenges in the low-carbon sectors of energy meteorology, materials, water, wind and fusion. The project aims to highlight new modelling capabilities in selected energy sectors and demonstrate the potential benefits of HPC simulations to the energy industry.
Objective
The Energy-oriented Centre of Excellence (EoCoE) applies cutting-edge computational methods in its mission to accelerate the transition to the production, storage and management of clean, decarbonized energy. EoCoE is anchored in the High Performance Computing (HPC) community and targets research institutes, key commercial players and SMEs who develop and enable energy-relevant numerical models to be run on exascale supercomputers, demonstrating their benefits for low-carbon energy technology. The present project will draw on a successful proof-of-principle phase of EoCoE-I, where a large set of diverse computer applications from four such energy domains achieved significant efficiency gains thanks to its multidisciplinary expertise in applied mathematics and supercomputing. During this 2nd round, EoCoE-II will channel its efforts into 5 scientific Exascale challenges in the low-carbon sectors of Energy Meteorology, Materials, Water, Wind and Fusion. This multidisciplinary effort will harness innovations in computer science and mathematical algorithms within a tightly integrated co-design approach to overcome performance bottlenecks and to anticipate future HPC hardware developments. A world-class consortium of 18 complementary partners from 7 countries will form a unique network of expertise in energy science, scientific computing and HPC, including 3 leading European supercomputing centres. New modelling capabilities in selected energy sectors will be created at unprecedented scale, demonstrating the potential benefits to the energy industry, such as accelerated design of storage devices, high-resolution probabilistic wind and solar forecasting for the power grid and quantitative understanding of plasma core-edge interactions in ITER-scale tokamaks. These flagship applications will provide a high-visibility platform for high-performance computational energy science, cross-fertilized through close working connections to the EERA and EUROfusion consortia.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational science
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesnuclear physicsnuclear fusion
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputers
- natural sciencesmathematics
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
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Participants (23)
52428 Julich
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52062 Aachen
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00196 Roma
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08034 Barcelona
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75794 Paris
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31029 Toulouse Cedex 4
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78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
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69342 Lyon
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67081 Strasbourg
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38058 Grenoble
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31057 Toulouse Cedex
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80539 Munchen
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80686 Munchen
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91054 Erlangen
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00185 Roma
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00133 Roma
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38122 Trento
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61 704 Poznan
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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BA2 7AY Bath
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28040 MADRID
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92500 Rueil Malmaison
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92360 Meudon La Foret
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