Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), an international not-for-profit association that brings together the five largest European supercomputing centers and involves 26 European countries, has allocated more than half a billion core hours to computer simulations to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside experiments, these simulations are a pillar of research to assess the risks of different scenarios and investigate mitigation strategies. While the world deals with the subsequent waves of the pandemic, we present a reflection on the use of urgent supercomputing for global societal challenges and crisis management.
Authors: Núria López, Luigi Del Debbio, Marc Baaden, Matej Praprotnik, Laura Grigori, Catarina Simões, Serge Bogaerts, Florian Berberich, Thomas Lippert, Janne Ignatius, Philippe Lavocat, Oriol Pineda, Maria Grazia Giuffreda, Sergi Girona, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Michael M. Resch, Gabriella Scipione, Thomas Schulthess
Institutions: Institut Català d'Investigació Química, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, University of Edinburgh, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, University of Ljubljana, National Institute of Chemistry, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, ALPINES: Algorithmes et outils parallèles pour des simulations numériques intégrées, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland), Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif (France), Barcelona Supercomputing Center, CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Cineca
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funders: Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, University of Edinburgh, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL, Institut Català d'Investigació Química, China Scholarship Council, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Univerza v Ljubljani, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, National Supercomputing Centre Singapore, Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
OpenAlex ID: W3214514279