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White Paper: Empowering Large-Scale Turbulent Flow Simulations With Uncertainty Quantification Techniques

An effective, robust simulation must account for potential sources of uncertainty. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in particular, has to deal with many uncertainties from various sources. The real world, after all, forces many kinds of uncertainties upon engineering components – everything from changes in numerical and computational parameters to uncertainty in initial and boundary conditions and geometry. No matter how expensive a flow simulation is, the uncertainties have to be assessed. In CFD, uncertainty is inevitable. But it presents us with a question: how do you know which uncertainties to expect and quantify without using an enormous amount of computing power?

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EXCELLERAT Conference: Impressions, Takeaways, and How to Watch

Nearing the end of its 3.5 year run, EXCELLERAT hosted a two-day online conference last week to present the industrial and broader European perspective on the project’s first run. Called “EXCELLERAT: Enabling Exascale potentials for engineering applications,” it showcased the impact, innovations, and tools that resulted from the work of the European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications.

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Data management workflow for HPC – SSC Data Management Workflow Portal

Organisations and smaller industry partners today face various problems in dealing with high performance computing (HPC) computations, HPC in general, or even access to HPC resources. Hence, the EXCELLERAT Data Management Service develops best practices and provides support for managing the large amounts of data generated and used in technical HPC applications.

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On the technical debt of high-performance scientific software

High-performance scientific software must overcome two specific challenges: scientific validation, and performance on bleeding-edge and short-lived hardware. Success in each requires time, expertise, and cumulative experience over many failed attempts. Thus, engineering software developers are mostly experts in physical modelling or in high-performance computing (HPC) and rarely experts in the management of technical debt.

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EXCELLERAT’s Fourth All-Hands Meeting

From 30 November to 1 December 2021, our project meeting was once again hosted as a digital event due to the continuing pandemic situation. About 30 partner representatives per day presented the EXCELLERAT project tasks’ good progress, some minor 2021 challenges, and the requirements for the project’s extension and great final results.

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How can SMEs benefit from using High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud

European growth is unthinkable without its 23 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Representing 99.8 percent of European companies, they form the foundation for innovation, competition, and jobs. It’s important to support these SMEs in sustainable development through innovation, processes optimisation, and increased competitiveness: e.g. through the software and data processing support of HPC.

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Road and Scouts: a versioning strategy for large Research software.

Versioning of large research software applications for industry can be sloppy because audiences have different needs. End-users require a clear official version, while research asks for many exploratory versions.

Born in the 1990s, AVBP is combustion software used and developed today by dozens of industrial users and researchers simultaneously. This post will consider whether it is suitable for a semantic versioning strategy.

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