Category: News
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High Fidelity Aeroelastic Simulation of the SFB 401 Wing in Flight Conditions
Uncertainty in aeroelastic predictions forces aircraft manufacturers to rely on conservative design margins, increasing weight and certification costs. Using exascale fluid–structure simulations, CEEC demonstrated how high-fidelity modelling can improve load prediction, reduce development risk, and support more efficient aircraft designs.
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Shock–Boundary Layer Interaction and Buffet on Wings at the Edge of the Flight Envelope
Shock buffet limits aircraft efficiency, performance, and operational safety in transonic flight. Using exascale CFD and high-fidelity simulations, CEEC demonstrated how next-generation modeling can improve buffet prediction, support lighter wing designs, and accelerate the development of more efficient aircraft.
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Advancing European HPC: Lessons from Porting Scientific Codes to RISC-V
On April 29, CEEC hosted our latest webinar exploring a key question for Europe’s digital future: how ready are our scientific applications for emerging European hardware? As efforts around European chip sovereignty accelerate, porting and evaluating applications on new architectures is becoming essential. In this session, CEEC experts shared hands-on experience working with long-vector RISC-V…
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Best Paper Award at HPCAsia 2026: Matrix‑Free Algebraic hp‑Multigrid for Extreme‑Scale CFD
A recent CEEC-related research contribution received the Best Paper Award at HPCAsia 2026 for the work titled “A Matrix-Free Algebraic hp-Multigrid Method for Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications.” Overall, 143 papers were submitted to the conference, sixty-nine were accepted, and only three were selected as best paper finalists, of which CEEC’s contribution was deamed best. This…
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CEEC Progress Towards more energy-efficient CFD
Energy efficiency is a growing challenge in high-performance computing as systems become more powerful and complex. We analyzed energy use across major European supercomputers using CFD applications, highlighting how GPUs and mixed-precision methods can reduce energy consumption while maintaining performance and accuracy.
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Performance Portability for Fortran Software – Experience from GALÆXI
On 9 December 2025, we wrapped up our webinar programme for the year with a session focused on a timely challenge across high-performance computing: how to prepare long-standing Fortran simulation codes for today’s GPU-based systems. In this final webinar of 2025, our own Spencer Starr shared insights from the Numerics Research Group at the Institute…
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Exploring CI/CD Tools and Workflows with CEEC
On 26 November, we hosted our latest CEEC webinar—an hour dedicated to making Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) more accessible to researchers and developers working with HPC software. CI/CD can feel like a big leap if you’ve never used it before, but the session showed just how transformative even simple workflows can be for…
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Extreme-Scale High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics with Neko
On October 22, Niclas Jansson hosted a CEEC webinar introducing Neko, covering everything from installation to running simulations. He highlighted key updates and new features coming in Neko v1.0, along with improvements in usability and functionality. Watch the recording and explore the materials below to start using Neko yourself.
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Learning to Optimize Codes with the DLB Library
Wednesday afternoon September 17 saw Marta Garcia leading and over 20 HPC users through the second edition of our DLB Library webinar. Watch the video and read the slides here.
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Two Years of CEEC & EPI
CEEC’s co-design efforts with the European Processor Initiative (EPI) target performance portability for European vector hardware. Using real CFD codes, the team provides feedback to hardware, compiler, and application developers, shaping the EPAC accelerator for scientific computing.