Excellence in SImulation of Weather and Climate in Europe
Coordinator
National University of Ireland Galway ; BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION ; Max Planck Society ; German Meteorological Service ; BULL SAS ; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ; SEAGATE SYSTEMS UK LIMITED ; University of Reading ; ARM LIMITED ; Met Office ; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ; Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum ; Allinea Software (United Kingdom) ; Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute ; CNRS - Institut des Sciences Biologiques ; Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change ; Centre Europeen De Recherche Et De Formation Avancee En Calcul Scientifique ; Technology Strategy Board
Grant period
2015-09-01 - 2019-08-31
Funding body
European Union
Call number
H2020-EINFRA-2015-1
Grant number
675191
Identifier
G:(EU-Grant)675191
Note: ESiWACE will substantially improve efficiency and productivity of numerical weather and climate simulation on high-performance computing platforms by supporting the end-to-end workflow of global Earth system modelling in HPC environment. This will be obtained by improving and supporting (1) scalability of models, tools and data management on state-of-the-art supercomputer systems (2) Usability of models and tools throughout the European HPC eco-system, and (3) the Exploitability of the huge amount of resulting data.
We will develop solutions for cross-cutting HPC challenges particular to the weather and climate domain. This will range from the development of specific software products to the deployment of user facing services for both, computing and storage.
ESiWACE leverages two established European networks, namely (1) the European Network for Earth System modelling, representing the European climate modelling community and (2) the world leading European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The governance structure that defines the services to be provided will be driven by the European weather and climate science community.
Weather and climate computing have always been one of the key drivers for HPC development, with domain specific scientific and technical requirements that stretch the capability and capacity of existing software and hardware to the limits. By developing solutions for Europe and at European scale, ESiWACE will directly impact on the competitiveness of the European HPC industry by engendering new products, providing opportunities for exploitation beyond the project itself, and by enhancing the skills base of staff in both industry and academia.
ESiWACE will be at once thematic, as it focuses on the HPC application domain of climate and weather modeling, transversal, as it covers several aspects of computational science, and challenge-driven, as climate and weather predictability represents a major societal issue.
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