The HANAMI (HPC AlliaNce for Applications and supercoMputing Innovation) project builds on the EU-Japan Digital Partnership by bringing together research teams representing excellence in High-Performance Computing (HPC) from both Europe and Japan. This initiative focuses on optimizing HPC applications in domains of common interest for future generations of supercomputing architectures and promoting the use of such supercomputers in the EU and Japan. European and Japanese research centers will collaborate to develop and optimize applications in various scientific fields, with a focus on climate and weather modeling, materials science, and biomedicine. This collaboration builds upon and extends the already established scientific cooperation between the two regions.Joint activities between the European consortium and Japanese research institutes will leverage expertise to develop HPC applications by designing new models, and optimizing, developing, and integrating new and ambitious workflows and models to efficiently benefit from pre-exascale and exascale systems deployed or already operational in Europe and Japan.

Funded by EuroHPC, the HANAMI project started in March 2024 and will run for 36 months. The project involves about 60 researchers from 14 European organizations and 6 Centers of Excellence for HPC applications (MaX, EoCoE, TREX, RAISE, EsiWACE, and PerMedCoE). 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, 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.

Source: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives