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The Centres of Excellence (CoEs) are specialised projects dedicated to advancing High-Performance Computing (HPC) across key scientific and industrial domains in Europe. They bring together leading experts, cutting-edge infrastructure, and targeted research to address complex challenges in areas such as climate modelling, materials science, engineering, or digital twins. The CoEs aim to develop and optimise HPC applications, ensuring they meet the highest performance and efficiency standards. By collaborating with industry, academia, and public institutions, the CoEs drive the adoption of HPC technologies, supporting innovations that strengthen Europe’s leadership in the digital and scientific realms.

 

CoE MICROCARD-2
CoE MultiXscale
CoE Plasma-PEPSC

Success Stories & Use Cases

Each of the success stories below is a summary of a successful experiment that has been conducted within one of our organisations and one or more partners from industry, society, and/or science. The summary focuses on the business benefits resulting from the experiment.

 
  CoE EXCELLERAT P2
Success Story


NOx pathways in lean partially premixed swirling H2‐air turbulent flame
Automated workflow for the Hi-fidelity simulation of propulsion devices:…

Scientific and industrial partners involved: Cerfacs is a science center that produces innovative solutions for the simulation of earth physics…

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  CoE EXCELLERAT P2
Success Story


Main components of ITER fusion reactor. Figure courtesy: G. Dubus, “From Plain Visualisation to Vibration Sensing: Using a Camera to Control the Flexibilities in the ITER Remote Handling Equipment (Doctoral Dissertation),” PhD Thesis, 2014.
Advanced scalable workflow of heat load assessment inside nuclear fusion…

Scientific partners involved: The LeCAD laboratory (University of Ljubljana) manages one of the few supercomputers in Slovenia, which it uses…

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  CoE EXCELLERAT P2
Success Story


Locally increased resolution resulting from use of AMR framework. Upper plot shows volume occupied by various refinement levels and the lower figure presents the corresponding flow structure
High-fidelity simulation using Adaptive Mesh Refinement with Spectral Element…

Scientific partners involved: KTH is a leading Scandinavian research centre and the largest technical university in Sweden. It conducts research and…

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  CoE BioEXCEL-3
Use Case


bioexcel: Electronic Interaction Phenomena
BioExcel: Electronic Interaction Phenomena: Proton Dynamics and Fluorescent…

Short Description Proton Dynamics Mass spectrometry has revolutionized proteomics, i.e. the investigation of the myriad of protein/protein…

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  CoE EoCoE III
Use Case


EoCoE-III: HPC Accelerator Architectures
Performance Portability on HPC Accelerator Architectures with Modern Techniques…

Short Description Rapidly changing heterogeneous supercomputer architectures pose a great challenge to many scientific communities trying to…

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  CoE EXCELLERAT P2
Success Story


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Excellerat Success Story: Bringing industrial end-users to Exascale computing:…

CoE involved:Strong scaling for turbulent channel (tri) and rocket engine simulations (circle). Performance (symbols) versus ideal (line)…

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  CoE ESiWACE-3
Use Case


ESiWACE-GPU-optimization
GPU Optimizations for Atmospheric Chemical Kinetics

Short DescriptionWithin the ESiWACE2 project, open HPC services to the Earth system modelling community in Europe provide guidance, engineering, and…

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  CoE ESiWACE-3
Use Case


esiwace:ice sheet model coupler parallelization and optimization
OBLIMAP ice sheet model coupler parallelization and optimization

Short Description Within the ESiWACE2 project, we have parallelized and optimized OBLIMAP. OBLIMAP is a climate model - ice sheet model coupler…

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  CoE HiDALGO2
Success Story


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HiDALGO success story: Assisting decision makers to solve Global Challenges…

HIGHLIGHTED CENTRE OF EXCELLENCEHiDALGO is the Center of Excellence in HPC and Big Data technologies for Global Systems funded by the European…

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  CoE ESiWACE-3
Use Case


DYAMOND-models
DYAMOND intercomparison project for storm-resolving global weather and climate…

Short DescriptionThe growth in computational resources now enables global weather and climate models to operate on the scale of a few kilometres. At…

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Events

Find a list of upcoming events that bring together experts, researchers, and industry professionals to explore the latest advancements in high-performance computing on this page. From workshops and to conferences and networking opportunities, these events are designed to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and drive innovation.

 
  Barcelona, Spain
In person


Computational Methods in Geophysics training
Computational Methods in Geophysics

The Computational Methods in Geophysics training, organised by ChEESE CoE in collaboration with Geo-Inquire, NCC Spain, NCC Italy, NCC Portugal and…

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  Jülich, Germany
Hybrid


3rd ESiWACE3 Hackathon
3rd ESiWACE3 Hackathon: Porting Earth System Models to the First EuroHPC…

Date & LocationDates: 21–23 October 2025Location: Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Jülich, GermanyCosts: There is no participation fee.…

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Online


Plasma reactor by GYSELA
EoCoE / CASTIEL 2 Code of the month: Exascale challenges for tokamak plasma…

During this CASTIEL 2 Code of the month webinar, Peter Donel (CEA / IRFM) will present the GYSELA-X code, which modelizes tokamak reactors. …

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  Naples, Italy
In person


CINI HPC summer school
CINI 3rd International Summer School on High-Performance Computing for Science…

The Summer School offers an intensive program on the entire hardware and software stack. This co-design perspective is essential for designing High-…

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In the Spotlight

 
In the Spotlight
Logos of the MaX Lighthouse codes.
MaX software development update (April 2025)

Over the past two years, MaX has made significant strides in developing and optimizing simulation software able to run on exascale supercomputing…

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In the Spotlight
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Two Years of "MaX Centre of Excellence"

As MaX reached the halfway point of the project in 2025, we took a moment to pause, reflect on the results achieved, and look ahead to what’s next.…

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In the Spotlight
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“Voices of MaX” brings Materials Science and High-Performance Computing to the…

MaX Centre of Excellence (CoE) launches a new podcast series titled “Voices of MaX”, designed to open the doors of advanced materials research and…

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In the Spotlight
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News from the Centre of Excellence in Exascale CFD

Swimming with the Flow: waLBerla Simulations with VistleTwo years into CEEC, we’re starting to see how we ‘ll help push computational fluid dynamics…

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In the Spotlight
News from ESiWACE3
News from ESiWACE3

Open Call for Proposals to Advance Europe’s Weather and Climate Models for Pre-Exascale SystemsThe ESiWACE3 Consortium is excited to announce an open…

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In the Spotlight
European Collaboration in Action: HiPEAC Conference
European Collaboration in Action: HiPEAC Conference

The recent HiPEAC Conference in Barcelona brought together a remarkable convergence of expertise and innovation in high-performance computing (HPC).…

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In the Spotlight
Insights from MAterials design at the eXascale
Insights from MAterials design at the eXascale

MaX software achieve performance and scalability on different EuroHPC architecturesMaX ‘Performance and Scalability’ brochure gathers the latest…

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In the Spotlight
Updates from EXCELLERAT P2
Updates from EXCELLERAT P2

EXCELLERAT Podcast #12: Advancing Computational Fluid Dynamics in Aerodynamics The 3rd General Assembly of the 3rd phase of the European…

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Blog

 
Blog
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Advanced SIESTA Workshop: A Successful Showcase of Materials Simulation
Between 2-5 June, 2025, the MaX Centre of Excellence co-organized the Advanced SIESTA Workshop in Barcelona, bringing together researchers and…
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Blog
Aeral view of the participants and organizers of the school. Group photo.
MaX school: "Excited states in complex materials by MBPT methods"
From May 19–23, 2025, MaX Centre of Excellence held a school on excited states in complex materials using MBPT methods. The program focused on…
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Collage of pictures from the event.
MaX Silver Sponsor of AI4AM2025: Advancing AI Applications in Materials Science
MaX Centre of Excellence was proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials 2025 (AI4AM2025) conference, which…
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