On April 23, 2024, the kick-off meeting of an international group of researchers gathered around The project HANAMI - HPC AlliaNce for Applications and supercoMputing Innovation was held in Paris, in which the Polish side was represented by prof. dr hab. Hanna Pawłowska and dr Piotr Dziekan from the Atmospheric Physics Department of the Institute of Geophysics of the FUW. The HANAMI project is a three-year collaboration involving 14 European research institutions, funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking under the Horizon Europe program. The project aims to enhance the development and performance of European and Japanese large-scale computing applications by leveraging the shared skills and knowledge of the research communities in both regions. The project started on March 1, 2024, and will run for 36 months.

European and Japanese research centres will work together to develop and optimize applications in various scientific fields, with a particular focus on climate simulation, materials research and biomedicine, building on and expanding the already-established scientific cooperation between the two countries. The joint efforts of the European consortium and Japanese research institutes will combine expertise to develop HPC applications through the design of new models, optimization, development and integration of new and challenging workflows and models to effectively utilize pre-exascale and exascale systems deployed or already in operation in Europe and Japan.

The project HANAMI focuses on applications in the fields of climate and weather modelling, biomedical applications and materials science development, in relevant research areas that can benefit from closer collaboration in the development of HPC applications. The main goal of the project will be to port existing codes and test and evaluate application performance on new computing architectures. It will also facilitate European researchers' access to advanced supercomputing resources, such as Fugaku in Japan, and in turn, enable Japanese partners to access EuroHPC systems.

The project, led by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), in France, includes 14 European organizations: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), from Spain, CINECA and National Research Council of Italy (CNR), from Italy, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), from France, IT Center for Science (CSC), from Finland, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), and the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS/USTUTT), from Germany, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), from UK, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), from Portugal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), from Sweden, and University of Warsaw (UW), from Poland.

The project also brings together 10 Japanese institutions, namely, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, National Institute for Materials Science, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), RIKEN, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH), University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, and Yokohama University.

Communication and Dissemination of The project HANAMI:

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