At the cross-road of the energy and digital revolutions, the Energy-oriented Center of Excellence (EoCoE) develops and applies cutting-edge computational methods in its mission to accelerate the transition to the production, storage and management of clean, decarbonized energy.
The Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe (ESiWACE) enables global storm- and eddy resolving weather and climate simulations on the upcoming (pre-)Exascale supercomputers. Explicitly resolving small scale features, like clouds and storms, will vastly improve our ability to predict weather patterns in a changing climate.
EXCELLERAT – the Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications – is a single point of access for services and knowledge on how data management, data analytics, visualisation, simulation-driven design and Co-design with high-performance computing (HPC) can benefit engineering, especially in the aeronautics, automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors. The goal of EXCELLERAT is to enable the European engineering industry to advance towards Exascale technologies.
ITFLOWS will generate novel insights on migration. The purpose of ITFLOWS is to provide accurate predictions and adequate management solutions of migration flows in the European Union in the phases of reception, relocation, settlement and integration of migration, according to a wide range of human factors and using multiple sources of information. These insights will be provided by an evidence-based ICT enabled solution (the EUMigraTool) and precise models. All solutions will have fitness for purpose continually validated by policy-makers and practitioners in cooperation with civil-society organisations in a dynamic and iterative process.
The rise of digital media platforms is changing the public political discourse dramatically. The platforms facilitate communication to an unprecedented extent, which leads to an abundance of continuously generated data that calls for new means to make it comprehensible to human participants. The ODYCCEUS (Opinion DYnamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces project is devoted to the development of theories and methods to deal with this challenge. The project is highly interdisciplinary, combining groups from mathematics, complex systems, and computer science with sociology, media studies, history, and geography. The project seeks conceptual breakthroughs, including a fine-grained representation of cultural conflicts based on conceptual spaces and natural language processing, extensions of game theory to handle games with both divergent interests and divergent mindsets, and new models of alignment and polarization dynamics. In order to make the developed tools available to a larger scientific and non-scientific audience, the project has established an open platform PENELOPE(https://penelope.vub.be/), that provides modules for the complete pipeline starting at data acquisition from social media and digital sources, to visualization of the analyses and models developed by the project.
SODALITE vision is to support Digital Transformation of European Industry through increasing design and runtime effectiveness of software-defined infrastructures, to ensure high-performance execution over dynamic heterogeneous execution environments; increasing simplicity of modelling applications and infrastructures, to improve manageability, collaboration, and time to market. This is achieved by providing application developers and infrastructure operators with tools that abstract their application and infrastructure requirements to enable simpler and faster development, deployment, operation, and execution of heterogeneous applications reflecting diverse circumstances over heterogeneous, software-defined, high-performance, cloud infrastructures, with a particular focus on performance, quality, manageability, and reliability.
The purpose of VECMA (Verified Exascale Computing for Multiscale Applications) is to enable a representative range of diverse multiscale applications – from fusion and advanced materials through climate and migration, to personalised medicine – to run on current multi-petascale computers and future exascale environments in such a manner that their output is deemed to be of high fidelity and, thus, “actionable”. That is, the calculations and simulations to be certified as validated, verified and equipped with quantified error bars such that they may be relied upon to take important decisions in the domains of concern. In short, VECMA develops generic verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) approaches for multiscale applications on current tier-0 HPC and emerging exascale machines.