Success Stories
Each of the success stories below is a summary of a successful experiment that has been conducted within one of the EuroCC projects and one or more partners from industry, society, and/or science. The summary focuses on the business benefits resulting from the experiment.
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Success Story: AI medical device software to quantify brain damage and clinical prognosis
BrainTale is an innovative company opening a new era in medicine by providing physicians with clinically validated prognostic solutions for the management of brain injured patients through sensitive and reliable measurements of brain white-matter microstructure alterations. Building on more than 15 years in clinical development, BrainTale’s products are developed collaboratively to address medical need and…
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Success Story: Airinnova Successful Prace Type-A Application
Within the proposed project Airinnova will focus on a very high altitude and long endurance solar-electronic aircraft, using the designed models by Conceptual Design Corporate (CRC), simulate the given models, and optimize to find out the best design regarding lift-to-drag ratio. The tasks mainly consist of…
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Success Story: An accurate AI-based Cloud Mask Processor for Sentinel-2
Cloud masking is an essential step for the pre-processing of optical satellite imagery. KappaZeta addresses the problem by introducing KappaMask, an AI-based cloud and cloud shadow masking processor for Sentinel-2, which carries an optical instrument payload that samples 13 spectral bands. As a cloud detector, KappaMask uses a large convolutional segmentation model. Faster model convergence…
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Success Story: Anomaly Detection in Time Series Data: Gambling prevention using Deep Learning
Gambling prevention of online casino players is a challenging ambition with positive impacts both on player’s well-being, and for casino providers aiming for responsible gambling. To facilitate this, we propose…
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Success Story: Anomaly Detection of Noisy Time Series
3B-the fibreglass company is producing different types of fibreglass. The products are wound onto bobbin shapes at a speed of typically 50km/h. The production is to a high degree automatic. One the remaining manual procedures is the detection of breaking fibres during the winding process. The aim of the collaboration was two-fold. The first…
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Success Story: Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany introduce EuroCC to the international community
The workshop on High-Performance Computing attracted 60 participants from more than ten countries and facilitated productive networking with the b2b sector. In essence, it became a great platform for promoting the uptake of HPC, explaining the European HPC landscape to the international audience and offering access to the technical know-how available in AT/CZ/DE in particular.
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Success Story: Code Modernization for the Glass Industry
Şişecam fabricates glass products using custom-made furnaces. They use a simulation code written some decades ago that traces the glass particles inside the furnace. In a nutshell, the longer the particles stay inside the furnace, the better the quality of the product. To achieve this, they need to perform simulations with many particles…
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Success Story: Communication campaign for LUMI in spring/summer 2022
NCC Finland did collaboration with the following NCCs during the communication campaign: NCCs Belgium, Denmark, Czech Republic, Estonia, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, we did collaboration directly with the EuroHPC JU. Furthermore, the following organizations were included in the communication campaign: Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment…
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Success Story: Computational and experimental science go together to – literally – reveal snapshots of the formation and growth of 2D polymers with unprecedent resolution
Polymers have acquired a really important role in human life. There are uncountable products that depend on them, such as plastic lenses in glasses or clothing made from synthetic fibres and they can even be used in advanced electronic applications (directly linked to 2D polymers). However, the process of how these are exactly formed has…
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Success Story: Computational Fluid Dynamics of Selective Catalytic Reaction
The main objective of the proof-of-concept was to determine whether Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations could be used for the fast and efficient description of the catalysis process of the selective catalytic reduction technology (SCR), and therefore can be used as a tool for the design of this technology, which belongs to the group of DeNOx…
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Success Story: Creo Dynamics Successful Application PRACE DECI17
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study of high-pressure hydrogen (H2). The overall aim of the project is to derive a best practice recommendation for transient CFD simulations of H2 high pressurized tanks. State-of-the-art commercial and open-source CFD software will be used within the project…
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Success Story: Decision support tool combining artificial intelligence and behavioural finance adapted to trading and portfolio management
Horae Technology is an entrepreneurial and independent investment management company, founded in 2021, and approved by the French financial market Authority (AMF). Our mission: Enhance the value of our clients’ savings. Horae Technology addresses both private clients and institutional investors through the mutual fund « Horae Opportunities » and the management of customised mandates. We offer…
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Success Story: DigitalSmart and DunavNET to provide AI edge solution for poultry industry, done in context of FF4EuroHPC experiments
DigitalSmart is a coordinator of a new H2020 project: called AIMHiGH that is implemented in the context of HPC Fortissimo project. The title of the project is AI/ML Enabled by HPC for Edge Camera Devices for the Next Generation Hen Farms and it is funded as an application experiment within Horizon 2020 FF4EuroHPC project.
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Success Story: Drug Research and HPC. Moroxite AB & Forcelab AB Access VEGA System
It is thrilling to announce that Moroxite AB (https://moroxite.net/) and Forcelab AB (www.force-lab.eu) have been awarded EuroHPC Joint Undertaking development-type access allocation on the VEGA petascale supercomputer hosted at the Institute for Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor, Slovenia. The application process benefitted from input by dr. Roberto Di Remigio, research software engineer at ENCCS…
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Success Story: Enabling HPC Usage for Expensive ML Tasks on Manufacturing Environments
Erste is working on two international manufacturing projects. They require Anomaly Detection and Predictive Maintenance models trained on a huge amount of data. The company is highly fluent in front- and back-end development; the R&D team was developing prediction and classification algorithms to reduce the maintenance cost and downtime of the press machines used…
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Success Story: EnginZyme PRACE DECI17 Access
A EnginZyme project has been allocated 1.2 million core-hours after the PRACE DECI17 call for a molecular dynamics study to evaluate how the wild-type proteins behave in solution, and how different mutations influence the structure and properties of the enzyme. The overall goal is to increase the stability of enzymes in EnginZyme’s cascades for sustainable…
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Success Story: Environmental Data – From Transferring and Analytics to Decision Making
Reliable, fast, and accurate transferring of environmental (meteorological) data, followed by its computational analysis (descriptive and predictive), is a considerable technical challenge. On one hand, it is difficult to methodologically organise the large volumes of data being transferred, the enormous diversity of environmental sensors used, and the proliferation of the transmission protocols. On the other…
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Success Story: Fast generation of low-discrepancy sequences using accelerators
Computational accelerators offer significant advantages in terms of computational power when compared with regular CPUs. However, when dealing with the problem of fast generation of low-discrepancy sequences using accelerators, one has to take into account that any complex logic operations and branches in the code require significant rewriting of the code and may become a…
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Success Story: Francis turbine draft tube modernization
Industrial partner sought a technical solution to improve the efficiency of a hydroelectric power plant with minimal investment / alterations. Although the obvious solution would be to modernize the runner of the turbine, it was questionable whether the long-term gains would justify the expenses. Solution was seen in the modernization of the draft tube which…
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Success Story: High Efficiency Impeller Design for Wastewater Pumps through High Fidelity CFD simulations
As the cost of energy increases one has to spend it more efficiently to obtain sustainability. Also, net carbon zero energy production is another aspect of sustainability. On top of these two, recycling water is becoming more and more important and hence the water treatment facilities. EYS is already a manufacturer of rugged and robust…
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Success Story: HPC as Industry Enabler
Considering the wide portfolio of products and services built and developed by Leonardo, HPC has proven to be useful in different scenarios and sectors. Those, HPC has a dual function: on one hand, it provides a large proprietary computing power, by removing limits on the processing power used by the internal algorithms and codes; on…
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Success Story: HPC implementation of a model of human brain visual system using NEST Simulator
Collaborative research project funded by the Bulgarian Science Fund and performed by teams from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies and the Institute of Neurobiology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences led to the development of a hierarchical model of the human brain visual system. It was implemented using NEST Simulator – an open…
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Success Story: Icarus Simulations AB Accesses EuroHPC JU system Vega
With the support of ENCCS the Swedish SME Icarus Digital Math (http://icarusmath.com, Icarus Simulation AB), a spin-off from KTH, received access to the EuroHPC JU system Vega at Izum, Slovenia. In the project, Icarus aims to focus on development for industrial and commercial applications in the aviation, marine and, automotive industry…
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Success Story: Improving the Efficiency of the Graphene-Enhanced Polymer Composite Production via Classical Molecular Dynamics
One of the most popular products that Nanografi specializes in is graphene- and graphene oxide-enhanced polymer composites. Their protocol is based on a “synthesize-test-improve” with a lot of the human resources spent in the trial-and-error stages to develop the composite with the best mechanical properties. Since there are a large number of parameters that potentially…
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Success Story: Large-Scale Real-Time Image Content Moderation
This project addresses the problem of large-scale real-time image-based content moderation. The system is deployed to a production environment where tens of thousands of users browse the internet daily. The system must be both accurate and run in real-time to meet the business requirements. Moreover, the model size must be small so that multiple copies…
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Success Story: Launch of the vaccination centre
IT4Innovations was invited to participate in the project to build a large-scale vaccination centre in Ostrava. The centre at Černá louka became operational in March 2021. During the planning of the vaccination centre, many different aspects had to be considered, such as personnel, space organisation, number of other stations, etc. The main point was…
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Success Story: Low-latency AI-based gesture recognition HMI running on edge platforms
Implement a low-cost, low-latency, high-accuracy gesture recognition solution that can be deployed on different edge platforms such as the NVIDIA Jetson Nano.
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Success Story: Machine learning can help with weed detection
The vision of the Ullmanna company is to boost the efficiency and eco-friendliness of farming in conventional, organic, and sustainable farms. Nevertheless, it comes with the complex challenge of growing more organic crops without an enormous increase in the required workforce for weed control. Therefore, the Ullmanna company is developing an agricultural weeding machine that…
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Success Story: Measurement of microcapsule structural parameters using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
The main aim of collaboration between the National Competence Centre for HPC (NCC HPC) and the Institute of Polymers of SAV (IP SAV) was design and implementation of a pilot…
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Success Story: Medical Image Processing as a Service
The main goal of our cooperation with University Hospital Ostrava was to deploy and test a tool providing remote automatic tissue segmentation from patient image data obtained from computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on HPC infrastructure at IT4Innovations. The methods used to enable tissue segmentation were based on deep learning (DL). The…
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Success Story: Multi-scale and multiphysics simulation of a dam
CEVAA specialized in acoustics and mechanics, offers its test equipment and its expertise to Industry. Numerical simulation by finite elements is a major tool, with various specialized software and a dedicated team of engineers. In 2021, CEVAA was asked to study the mechanical strength of a dam. With scales ranging from centimeters to several tens…
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Success Story: Multimodal Prediction of Alexithymia from Physiological and Audio Signals
Alexithymia is a trait that reflects a person’s difficulty in recognizing and expressing their emotions, which has been associated with various forms of mental illness. Identifying alexithymia can have therapeutic, preventive, and diagnostic benefits. However, there has been limited research on proposing predictive models for alexithymia, and literature on multimodal approaches is almost non-existent. Using…
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Success Story: National Library of Sweden Has Now Access to VEGA
The National Library of Sweden has been awarded development access to the Vega EuroHPC JU system making it the first public administration actor in Sweden to access the system. The successful application was a joint effort between KB expert Dr. Love Börjeson and his group, and ENCCS expert Dr. Hossein Ehteshami…
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Success Story: Numerical analysis and assessment of a conceptual dam proposal
SME partner has been developing a small river dam that should meet energy production requirements so as to be a viable option while also integrating into the surrounding environment with minimal disturbance/changes. NCC’s goal in this project was the assessment of the feasibility of such a dam, assessment of potential flooding and overall integration into…
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Success Story: Numerical simulation of exoskeleton
The objective of this proof-of-concept was to demonstrate the use of numerical modelling and simulation in the design process of an innovative UNILEXA exoskeleton for gait assistance designed for people with partial or complete loss of lower limb function…
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Success Story: Optimization, parallelization and porting of an AI algorithm to HPC Architecture
Based in Paris, Advestis is a pure player in data science, with 14 data scientists and more than 40 projects since 2011. Advestis provides resources to put into production machine learning pipelines. Our goal: push the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of our customers’ innovations. We collaborate with research engineers and industry experts (both public and…
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Success Story: Optimizing industrial particle processes through simulation
More particles can only be simulated in shorter time spans by making use of the parallel resources available. For ‘shared memory’ parallelism such as TBB or GP-GPU, the bottleneck for this type of simulation is typically memory bandwidth and memory latency. When switching to an MPI parallel acceleration, across multiple compute nodes, the main challenge…
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Success Story: PaRI – Nordic Pandemic Research Infrastructure
PaRI brought together the needs, interests and resources to create e-infrastructure to support research excellence in the Nordic region. The scope of the project in spite of its focus on COVID-19 pandemic related research, is significantly wider including preparedness for all pandemic related research in the future. The project activities included genome-wide association studies, drug…
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Success Story: Pipe flow measurements, analysis and analytics
SME partner required help with ultrasonic pipe measurements, general sensing and automation. Therefore, a series of experimental test measurements had to be conducted, obtained experimental data had to be analysed, and subsequently used to improve current systems that integrate different sensing technologies.
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Success Story: Predict the damage to infrastructures caused by storms and map more precisely the risks of claims for insurance
Because of the recurrence of intense weather disturbances in France, Risk Weather Tech has developed, thanks to the Criann’s Myria supercomputer, a vast catalogue of storms physically and statistically plausible. Main objectives: to anticipate potential damage to infrastructures and to map more precisely the risks of claims for insurance…
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Success Story: Public Transport Analysis on HPC Infrastructure
Parabol has been developing a PT analysis platform (cermoni.app) to analyze the passengers’ boarding data and the vehicles’ GPS location data collected from a PT system. Currently, it performs spatiotemporal processing and analysis on the PT data, around 10M rows per month. Moreover, the PT accessibility analysis should be performed by finding activity regions for…
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Success Story: Revolutionising recycling with AI
Recycling waste is one of the easiest ways to reduce the use of limited resources and curb climate change, but often the materials that end up on the conveyors of the materials recovery facilities (MRFs) are not what recyclers want and many contaminants such as containers soiled with food waste have to be removed by…
