BARCELONA, Spain, Dec. 13, 2022 — The birth of geosciences and then of computational geosciences have changed people’s attitude towards the world. They are no longer passive observers but rather more proactive players in their environment and the knowledge gained from computational geosciences has been used to save lives and prepare for future scenarios.

Now, with the Exascale computing era dawning upon us, even more accurate, clearer and faster data will be within our reach. However, computational methods and codes need to be reshaped and honed, and geoscientists need to be prepared for upcoming challenges. The geoscience community is multidisciplinary and transversal, encompassing Earth observatories, research and academia, model developers and, finally, model end-users and social agents. From a scientific point of view, the entire community is facing scientific breakthrough problems for which researchers need to share their knowledge and experience and make roadmap recommendations in order to contribute to the advancement of this rapidly growing field.

The upcoming Galileo Conference “Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era”, which will take place on May 23-26, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, aims to bring together some of the world’s best minds in various branches of computational geosciences to jointly tackle challenges and issues of Exascale computing.

The event, supported by the European Geosciences Union and endorsed by the ChEESE Center of Excellence, will include four sessions that will facilitate the exchange of ideas and brainstorming on these cutting-edge topics:

• Preparation and optimization of HPC codes to Exascale.
• Edge-to-end data workflows.
• State-of-the-art in computational geosciences.
• Horizon Europe and EuroHPC policies.

Galileo Conferences differ from other events because they focus on open discussions. Traditionally, 50% of the conference time is dedicated to debate and dialogue which culminates in a final round table discussion. “Solid Earth and Geohazards in the Exascale Era” goes one step further by proposing to co-create a consensual white paper defining the vision and a roadmap for the computational geosciences community towards the Exascale era.

Submissions for abstracts are currently open, and the conference program committee invites researchers within the computational geosciences community to participate in this exciting event. More information can be found here.

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Source: Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)