Fostering Collaboration in Energy Research and Technological Developments applying new exascale HPC techniques

Abstract

During the last years, High Performance Computing

(HPC) resources have undergone a dramatic transformation,

with an explosion on the available parallelism and the use of

special purpose processors. There are international initiatives

focusing on redesigning hardware and software in order to

achieve the Exaflop capability. With this aim, the HPC4E

project is applying the new exascale HPC techniques to energy

industry simulations, customizing them if necessary, and going

beyond the state-of-the-art in the required HPC exascale

simulations for different energy sources that are the present

and the future of energy: wind energy production and design,

efficient combustion systems for biomass-derived fuels

(biogas), and exploration geophysics for hydrocarbon

reservoirs. HPC4E joins efforts of several institutions settled in

Brazil and Europe.