What do you expect to achieve in this project?
The central goal of ESiWACE is to substantially improve efficiency and productivity of numerical weather and climate simulations on High-Performance Computing platforms.
ESiWACE enables leading European weather and climate models to leverage theperformance of the fastest available supercomputers, with regards to both computing and data capacity, and will prepare the weather and climate community for the use of next generation world leading “exascale” computers; these are planned to be installed in Europe within the upcoming years.
How will European citizens benefit from this project, both from the technology developments it accomplishes as well as the scientific breakthroughs it may achieve?
We target climate simulations that run at the highest affordable spatial resolution and accuracy – a step towards change in predicting and understanding the regional impacts of global climate change, in particular through extreme weather events.
Is EU funding important for the European research? How has it contributed to your projects/careers/success?
Single institutions or even countries cannot meet the challenges presented to simulation sciences by the rapidly changing supercomputing environment. EU funding is therefore important to foster cooperation and co-design.
In our case, ESiWACE, the Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate, brought together two established European networks: the European Network for Earth System modelling (ENES), representing the European climate modelling community, and the world leading European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Together we will tackle common challenges of the weather and climate communities on a European scale.
What are you going to exhibit at ICT2018? What should visitors expect to see/experience upon visiting your booth?
We will bring a high-resolution touch screen in the form of a table showing animations and images, generated by state-of-the-art earth system models.
Other links:
DYAMOND project webpage