Accelerated Computing research group

ESiWACE3

Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe

Abstract

The ESiWACE3 project aims to build on the success of its predecessor, ESiWACE2, by further advancing Earth system modeling capabilities in Europe. The project will focus on supporting the scientific community in reaching higher readiness levels for exascale supercomputing and facilitating knowledge transfer between various Earth system modeling centers and teams across the continent.

ESiWACE3 has three main objectives: (i) to promote the efficient and scalable simulation of weather and climate by sharing knowledge and technology across the Earth system modeling community, (ii) to close common technology knowledge gaps and provide toolboxes for high-resolution Earth system modeling through joint developments, and (iii) to serve as a sustainable community hub for training, communication, and dissemination in high-performance computing for weather and climate modeling in Europe.

By bringing together different modeling groups to address these challenges, the project aims to foster collaboration, generate synergies between local efforts, offer targeted support to modeling groups through customized high-performance computing services, and provide training for the next generation of researchers.

Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe
Ben van Werkhoven

Ben van Werkhoven

Assistant Professor, Group Leader

Ben van Werkhoven is assistant professor at LIACS and head of the Accelerated Computing research group. His research interests lie in High Performance Computing (HPC), software optimization, automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning), energy efficiency, programming models, performance modeling, and the acceleration of scientific applications.

Stijn Heldens

Stijn Heldens

Research Software Engineer

I’m a Dutch computer scientist, currently working as a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the Netherlands eScience Center and a guest researcher at Leiden University. I enjoy scientific research where my interests lie in high-performance computing, with a particular focus on parallel algorithms, distributed systems, programming languages/compilers, and GPU programming.

Floris-Jan Willemsen

Floris-Jan Willemsen

Postdoc

Floris-Jan is a Postdoc at Leiden University. Floris-Jan recently graduated from the Accelerated Computing research group after completing his PhD. He carried out his PhD research at the Netherlands eScience Center and Leiden University. His research focusses on intelligent, automated optimization of GPU software.

Alessio Sclocco

Alessio Sclocco

Research Software Engineer

I have a PhD in Computer Science, and work as a Research Software Engineer at the Netherlands eScience Center. My research interests include high-performance computing, many-core accelerators, and auto-tuning.