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The French NCC: CC-FR, dedicated to HPC, HPDA and AI technologies, brings together the community of technology providers and users. CC-FR federates the HPC, HPDA and AI ecosystem and supports SMEs on the use of intensive computing, high-performance data analysis and artificial intelligence.
Organisations Involved
CC-FR, set up within the frame-work of EuroHPC, is managed by the European Pole of Competence in high performance digital simulation Teratec, in association with the European Center for Advanced Research and Training in Scientific Computing Cerfacs and with the participation of the Big National Equipment Intensive Computing Genci.
Risk Weather Tech
https://www.riskweathertech.com, is a Climate Modelling Specialist. RiskWeatherTech provides risk management and for the study of the vulnerability of territories and companies.
Technical Challenge
Risk Weather Tech integrated the CC-FR Tailored Program, to benefit from a high-level support in intensive computing. In collaboration with CRIANN (Regional Centre Information Technology and Digital Applications Normandy), Risk Weather Tech was able to access the MYRIA supercomputer, equipped
with more than 10,000 computing cores connected in very high throughput, and capable close to 700 trillion transactions per second.
Solution
Risk Weather Tech has developed, thanks to the Criann’s Myria
supercomputer and due to the recurrence of intense weather disturbances in France, a vast catalogue of storms physically and statistically plausible. Their
main objective in the concerned use case was to anticipate potential damage to infrastructures and to map more precisely the risks of claims for insurance.
Using the Myria super calculator of CRIANN, Risk weather Tech has performed 10,000 probable and realistic storms simulation in order to forecast what could
happen on the French territory. More than 870,000 CPU hours on the Criann’s Myria super-computer was needed to achieve these simulations.
Business Impact
The catalogue of the 10,000 realistic simulated storms will enable insurers to refine their storm cost estimates as requested by the French Authorities. It could also provide a better understanding of the vulnerability of large infrastructures recently installed on French territory, such as wind turbines or solar
panel fields.
Benefits
This first Catalogue of 10,000 Storms simulation permitted to propose service offerings to predict the damage to infrastructures caused by storms and to map more precisely the risks of claims for insurance.