ESiWACE3 had a strong presence at EGU26 in Vienna, contributing to a full week of scientific sessions, posters, oral presentations, PICO talks and community activities focused on high-performance computing (HPC) for Earth system science.
Overall, ESiWACE3 contributed with 3 oral presentations, 6 posters, 1 virtual poster discussion, 1 PICO presentation, 1 short course, participation in 4 scientific sessions, and the convening of 1 dedicated session on scalable and reproducible workflows for Earth System Sciences.
Throughout the week, project members presented work spanning atmospheric modelling, FAIR data infrastructures, scalable workflows, GPU acceleration, model performance optimisation and large-scale data management for climate and weather simulations.
One of the highlights of the week was the short course “Data compression and reduction for Earth System Sciences datasets in practice”, which attracted strong interest from attendees working with increasingly large and complex simulation datasets. The session explored practical approaches to reducing storage requirements and improving data handling efficiency while maintaining scientific usability, opening discussions around sustainable data management strategies for next-generation Earth system simulations.
Another major focus of the event was the ESiWACE3 booth, which became a meeting point for researchers, developers and infrastructure providers across the Earth system modelling community. Throughout the week, many attendees visited the booth to learn more about the project’s tools, services and activities, with particular interest in the Data Compression Lab and the different HPC solutions developed within the project.
In addition to the scientific programme, the booth hosted a series of daily “Meet the Experts” sessions covering:
- Earth System Applications
- Services & Success Stories
- Tools
- Data Compression
These informal discussions created valuable opportunities to exchange experiences, answer technical questions and showcase how ESiWACE3 supports researchers working with climate and weather simulations.
The event also provided an excellent opportunity to strengthen connections with the wider Earth system modelling and HPC community, fostering new collaborations and networking with researchers, infrastructure centres and service providers working at the intersection of climate science, computation and data-intensive workflows.
We would like to thank everyone who attended our sessions, visited the booth and joined the discussions throughout the week. See you at the next EGU!
