24.03.2025
During the 3rd General Assembly of ESiWACE3, held in November 2024 in Hamburg, our consortium gathered to assess the progress made halfway through the project. After two years of collaboration, this in-person meeting provided the perfect opportunity to reflect on our achievements, explore future directions, and engage with key stakeholders in the weather and climate modelling community.
As part of this milestone, we recorded a series of short interviews with the leaders of each of our six Work Packages, plus a video regarding our compression data lab. In these videos, they share firsthand insights into the goals, challenges, and key results of their work, showing how, after two years, ESiWACE3 is advancing high-performance computing (HPC) technologies for weather and climate applications in Europe.
We are excited to launch this video series today! Over the next week, we will release one video per day on our YouTube channel, giving you the chance to explore the progress of each Work Package in detail.
Watch the videos now!
Work Package 1 – Support to Effective Applications
In this opening video, Mario Acosta (BSC-CNS), Principal Investigator of ESiWACE3, introduces the work behind WP1, which supports the project through four main goals: efficient scalable simulation, close the technology gap, develop domain tools and serve as a sustainable community hub.
Work Package 2 –Develop Community Tools
In this video, Peter Dueben, WP2 Leader from ECMWF, explains that the goals of WP2 is to pair with partners, generate synergies and build community tools. According to him "We achieve our goals to make the tools very useful and I think the next step would be to automate our tools more, so you can give them to external users more efficiently".
Work Package 3 – Tackling the Data Challenge
In this video, Karsten Peters-von Gehlen (from Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum | DKRZ |), WP3 Leader, explains that the goals of WP3 is to improve the data layout, data compression and data storage, since the data has streamly high volume.
Work Package 4 –Community Services to Enhance HPC Applications
In WP4, the leader of the Work Package Gijs van den Oord from Netherlands eScience Center, highlights the goals of WP4, which are community engagement and knowledge transfer to the broader European Earth System Modeling community.
Work Package 5 –Training and Capacity Building for HPC Excellence
Nikki Brown, WP5 co-leader from SMHI, presents the WP5, which is the one that offers training on the various tools that we are developing within ESiWACE3.
In her own words: "We want to offer training in different forms to meet the needs of researchers at different stages of their careers. The Summer School was particularly valuable for those at the beginning of their careers, as they need all the help they can get to build networks of contacts that will last throughout their careers".
Work Package 6 –Community Engagement, Dissemination, and Exploitation
In this video, Rosa Rodriguez Gasen (she/her) from Barcelona Supercomputing Center and WP6 leader during the first 2 years of the project, explains that the main objective of WP6 is to engage with our community, with the climate and weather community, using HPC resources.
Here, Juniper Tyree, from the University of Helsinki, PhD student, researches on data compression as part of the ESiWACE3 CoE project. "As our models get bigger and better, they produce more and more data, so storing, transferring and analysing the data is becoming excessively costly and time consuming," explains Juniper. "In order to avoid limiting our climate scientists at some point, we need data compression so that we can handle this increasing amount of data and ensure that our climate scientists can continue to build bigger and more detailed models to protect our future."
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Stay tuned as we continue showcasing the people and expertise driving ESiWACE3 forward.