HiDALGO2 Project

What HiDALGO2 Project does

HiDALGO2 is a European Centre of Excellence consortium of 10 interdisciplinary partners across 8 countries, co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the member states Poland, Germany, Spain, Hungary, and France under grant agreement 101093457. Operating from January 2023 to December 2026, the project integrates High-Performance Computing (HPC), High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver exascale-ready simulations for five environmental pilot applications: Urban Air Pollution (coupling OpenStreetMap, ECMWF weather data, SUMO traffic simulation, and OpenFOAM CFD), Urban Buildings (Ktirio cloud platform for dynamic energy and indoor air quality simulation), Renewable Energy Sources (WRF and EULAG multiscale wind and solar digital twins), Wildfires (WRF-Sfire with VR/Unreal Engine visualisation), and Material Transport in Water (hydrodynamic-thermodynamic coupling). Technical highlights include demonstration of the Xyst CFD code at 196,000 CPU cores on the LUMI supercomputer and Urban Air simulations scaling to 100,000 cores, with enabling infrastructure tools QCG-Portal and QCG-PilotJob developed by PSNC, the Feel++ finite element library from Cemosis, and a public Moodle training platform.

The project is coordinated by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) with technical leadership from High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), and partners include ATOS (orchestration and quality management), Széchenyi István University (data ethics, dashboard, use case coordination), MeteoGrid (wildfire pilot and high-resolution meteorology), Cemosis/University of Strasbourg (urban buildings and Feel++), ICCS/NTUA (benchmarking, HPDA, AI), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (GPU and HPDA), and Future Needs Management Consulting (outreach and impact). Customer-style engagements exist with civil protection and emergency response bodies including the Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME), the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, and the National School of Civil Protection for wildland-urban interface fire training, and with a Polish Energy Operator for wind farm digital twin deployment.

HiDALGO2 is a publicly funded research project with no commercial product, pricing structure, or licensing revenue. All outputs, including open-source software (Feel++, Xyst, Ktirio), Docker/Singularity containers, training materials, and scientific publications, are distributed free of charge. The GTM motion is community-led, focused on HPC and global challenges research communities through workshops, hackathons, webinars, conference participation, and the Moodle training platform. Named marketing channels include the project website, LinkedIn (@HiDALGO2), YouTube, conference presence (ISC, SC, EuroHPC Summit, HiPEAC, SIAM CSE, PPAM), and joint activities with the EuroHPC NCC network and peer Centres of Excellence such as CASTIEL2, SEAVEA, CIRCE, and EXCELLERAT P2.

Name

HiDALGO2 Project

Legal name

HiDALGO2

Website

https://hidalgo2.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EuroHPC Centre of Excellence consortium of 10 partners across 8 European countries, integrating HPC, HPDA, and AI to deliver exascale-ready simulations for five environmental pilots: urban air pollution, urban building energy, renewables, wildfires, and water transport.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HPC Simulation Software

NAICS

Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

EIA/ESIA Documentation & Technical Studies (Air/Water/Noise/Traffic) (EUAHAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Onshore Wind Project Development & Permitting (EUAMACAA), NEPA/EA/EIS & Public Consultation (EUAHAAAB)

Keywords

• High performance computing
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Environmental simulation
• Exascale computing
• Digital twin modeling

Headquarters

HQ city

Poznań

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. EU Research Grant Funding (EuroHPC JU): HiDALGO2 is co-funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) and the member states Poland, Germany, Spain, Hungary, and France under grant agreement number 101093457. The project runs from January 2023 to December 2026. As a research project, it does not generate commercial revenue from product sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

HiDALGO2 is a European Centre of Excellence that develops and operates exascale-ready simulation pilots for environmental global challenges. Its core deliverables are five open-source pilot applications covering urban air pollution, urban building energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, wildfires, and material transport in water, supported by infrastructure tools (Feel++, Xyst, QCG-Portal, QCG-PilotJob) and a Moodle-based training platform. All outputs are made freely available to researchers, civil protection authorities, energy operators, and city planners.

Product overview

HiDALGO2 is a EuroHPC Centre of Excellence that integrates HPC, HPDA, and AI technologies to address global environmental challenges. The core offering consists of five pilot applications: Urban Air Project (for air quality simulation), Urban Building Model/Ktirio (for building energy efficiency), Renewable Energy Sources (for wind and solar forecasting), Wildfires (for fire-atmosphere simulation), and Material Transport in Water (for river pollutant simulation). These pilots are supported by enabling infrastructure tools including QCG-Portal and QCG-PilotJob for job management, the Feel++ open-source scientific computing library, and the HiDALGO2 Training Platform on Moodle. The project emphasizes scalability on EuroHPC supercomputers, digital twins for real-time decision support, and CI/CD practices for reproducible simulations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Air Project (UAP) Simulation of urban air pollution combining traffic-emitted pollutants, weather data (ECMWF), and computational fluid dynamics (OpenFOAM) to produce real-time digital twins at 1m resolution over 2x2 km domains. Targeted at city planners and environmental agencies.
• Urban Building Model (Ktirio) Cloud services platform for dynamic energy simulation integrating indoor air quality models for urban buildings, providing automatic model generation and decision support for thermal comfort and air quality. Targeted at urban building owners, municipalities, and energy efficiency planners.
• Renewable Energy Sources (RES) Digital Twin High-resolution digital twin for wind and solar energy modelling using a multiscale approach coupling WRF (mesoscale) and EULAG (microscale) models, providing energy production estimates with uncertainty quantification and infrastructure failure prediction for wind and photovoltaic farms. Targeted at energy operators and grid operators.
• Wildfires Pilot Integrated modelling of fire spread, atmospheric interactions, and smoke transport using the WRF-Sfire model, with immersive visualisation in virtual reality and Unreal Engine. Targeted at civil protection agencies, military emergency units, and wildfire response organisations.
• Material Transport in Water Advanced numerical simulations of sediment and pollutant transport in rivers, coupling hydrodynamics and thermodynamics with pollutant dynamics. Targeted at environmental agencies and water quality researchers.
• Feel++ Library Open-source C++ finite element library used as the foundation for Feel++-based simulation codes (urban buildings, CFD), supporting exascale computing with scalable mesh generation, parallel mesh adaptation, and multi-fidelity models. Targeted at HPC researchers and scientific computing users.
• Xyst CFD Code Production-quality, extensible open-source CFD code for engineering problems with complex geometries, featuring automatic load balancing for heterogeneous and dynamic compute-load distributions. Targeted at HPC and CFD practitioners.
• QCG-Portal Modern web solution for defining and executing computing scenarios on remote HPC resources, with templates for application submission and integrated data management via CKAN. Targeted at HPC users and consortium researchers.
• QCG-PilotJob Two-level scheduling paradigm implementing a pilot job service for efficient processing of large task ensembles, supporting DAG workflows, MPI/OpenMP parallel tasks, and lightweight user-space deployment. Targeted at HPC users running ensembles and dynamic scenarios.
• HiDALGO2 Training Platform Moodle-based public training platform providing courses on HPC, HPDA, AI applications, containerisation, CI/CD, CFD, urban air pollution, migration simulation, social networks, and cloud orchestration. Targeted at the HPC community, researchers, and practitioners globally.

Quantifiable outcome

• 196,000 CPU core run achieved on LUMI supercomputer with Xyst code
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability10 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered secondary, key and core.

• Repro-HPC WorkshopsecondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 June 2026HiDALGO2 co-organised the Repro-HPC Workshop (June 2026), presenting on 'Layered Reproducibility for HPC Applications' and participating in discussions on automating deployment across diverse HPC infrastructures.
• NCC Czechia (National Competence Center Czech Republic)secondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 November 2025Collaboration on a 3-day online training course on building-level and city-scale energy simulations using the Ktirio Urban Building framework, held November 26-28, 2025.
• NCC GermanysecondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 November 2025Joint 3-day training on building to city energy simulation with NCC Czechia and NCC Germany, delivering hands-on HPC training for urban energy modeling.
• EXCELLERAT P2 (European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications)keyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 September 2025Joint mini-symposium at SIAM CSE23 conference on HPC applications for tackling global and engineering challenges towards exascale. Both CoEs share expertise on application development and exascale computing strategies.
• ENCCS (EuroCC National Competence Center Sweden)secondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 May 2025ENCCS and HiDALGO2 CoE co-organised a webinar on May 26 at 13:00 CET on HPC use cases with SLB Analys, focusing on high-resolution CFD applications and exascale deployment.
• SLB AnalyssecondaryTechnology or Integration · 26 May 2025Subject of a HiDALGO2 CoE and ENCCS webinar on HPC use cases, demonstrating high-resolution CFD application deployment on EuroHPC infrastructure.
• National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)secondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 May 2025Host institution for the Student Workshop on AI and HPC Applications co-organised with CASTIEL2, taking place at ICCS/NTUA on May 26 and May 30, 2025.
• SEAVEA (Software Environment for Actionable and VVUQ-evaluated Exascale Applications)keyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 June 2024Joint collaboration on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for global challenge applications. SEAVEA and HiDALGO2 co-organised a workshop and joint hackathon on Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) using the SEAVEAtk toolkit. Potential cooperation on a graphical interface for the SEAVEAtk.
• CIRCE (Computational Immediate Response Center for Emergencies)keyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 June 2024Joint hackathon with CIRCE on VVUQ for HPC simulations used in global challenge applications and emergency response scenarios. CIRCE's computational immediate response capabilities complement HiDALGO2's simulation expertise for civil protection use cases.
• CASTIEL2 (EuroHPC Competence Centers Coordination)keyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 February 2023CASTIEL2 promotes interaction and exchange of expertise across the NCC network, encourages collaboration between HPC practitioners, and provides coordination support to EuroHPC Centres of Excellence. HiDALGO2 partners PSNC and HLRS participated in the CASTIEL2 kick-off and collaborate on joint student workshops and training activities.
• Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023PSNC serves as the project coordinator, responsible for overall management, information flow between partners, and smooth coordination with external entities. PSNC also leads the Renewable Energy Sources pilot, provides HPC infrastructure (Altair cluster), and develops the QCG-Portal/PilotJob tools for HiDALGO2.
• High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023HLRS provides technical leadership for developing new methods, algorithms, and software for HPC and HPDA, with a focus on systems science applications for global challenges. Hosts joint workshops (HiPEAC, Repro-HPC) and hackathons at its Stuttgart facility.
• ATOScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023ATOS is responsible for data collection and management, provision of the main orchestration solution for workflows (based on Croupier), and quality management within the HiDALGO2 project.
• Széchenyi István University (SZE)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023SZE is responsible for data and ethics management, the HiDALGO2 dashboard and visualisation technology, coordination of use case integration, and exploitation of synergies among the five use cases through development of couplings and joint research.
• MeteoGridcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023MeteoGrid is responsible for the Wildfire pilot/use case, providing reliable high-resolution meteorological forecasts to the HiDALGO2 project and other pilots. MeteoGrid also conducts wildfire-atmosphere interaction simulations and provides training to civil protection authorities.
• Cemosis (Centre de Modélisation et de Simulation de Strasbourg)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Cemosis is the University of Strasbourg's mathematics platform participating in HiDALGO2 with the Urban Buildings use case, developing the Ktirio platform and the Feel++ library, which serves as the foundation for multiple HiDALGO2 simulation codes.
• Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023ICCS (Computing Systems Laboratory at NTUA) organises and leads benchmarking, profiling, and optimisation of all HiDALGO2 pilots, and provides High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) support across the project.
• Future Needs Management Consulting Ltd (FN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Future Needs leads the Outreach, Awareness, and Impact Creation work package, managing dissemination activities, training plans, and long-term sustainability pathways for HiDALGO2.
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023FAU contributes to HPC and HPDA system support, focusing on particulate flow simulations, GPU programming (SYCL, OpenMP, CUDA, HIP), and performance portable computing for global challenge applications.
• ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)secondaryTechnology or Integration · 7 July 2021ECMWF provides weather and climate data (via APIs) used in HiDALGO2 pilots for boundary conditions, data assimilation, and post-processing. Training covers ECMWF and Copernicus data APIs for weather, climate, and environmental data retrieval.
• HuaweisecondaryTechnology or Integration · 27 April 2021Huawei Atlas AI Workshop held at PSNC, providing training on Huawei AI hardware (Atlas) for HPC and AI applications within the HiDALGO ecosystem.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC): Major European HPC center operating MareNostrum and participating in EuroHPC; comparable in exascale application enablement, CFD code development, and atmospheric modeling expertise aligned with HiDALGO2's mission.
• EoCoE (Energy-Oriented Centre of Excellence): EuroHPC CoE targeting energy applications (wind, materials, storage) on supercomputers, with overlapping renewable energy modeling, CFD optimization, and multi-physics simulation use cases for HiDALGO2's RES and Urban Buildings pilots.
• ChEESE-2P (Centre of Excellence for Solid Earth): Sister EuroHPC CoE developing exascale-ready codes for geophysics and natural hazards (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes); shares the same EuroHPC funding mechanism, consortium governance pattern, and CI/CD-driven HPC engineering culture as HiDALGO2.
• DKRZ (German Climate Computing Centre): Germany's national climate modeling HPC center; directly comparable to HiDALGO2's environmental modeling and EuroHPC infrastructure access model, particularly for climate and weather simulation workloads.
• ESiWACE3 (European Centre of Excellence for Weather and Climate Simulations): Fellow EuroHPC Centre of Excellence focused on scaling weather and climate simulations to pre-exascale and exascale, directly overlapping HiDALGO2 in atmospheric modeling, EuroHPC infrastructure use, and training pipelines for environmental challenges.
• EXCELLERAT P2 (European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications): EuroHPC CoE for engineering simulations, with which HiDALGO2 co-organised a mini-symposium at SIAM CSE23; shares application development, exascale computing strategies, and co-design workflows on EuroHPC systems.
• CSC – IT Center for Science: Finnish national HPC center hosting LUMI (the same supercomputer HiDALGO2 benchmarks on); comparable as an HPC-as-a-service provider for European environmental simulation research.

Broad incumbents

• UK Met Office: National meteorological service operating high-resolution weather and climate models on its own HPC; comparable to HiDALGO2 in scope of CFD-driven atmospheric modeling and wildfire/air-quality applications.
• ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts): Europe's premier numerical weather prediction center; HiDALGO2 explicitly integrates ECMWF data and APIs into its pilots and training, and ECMWF operates as the broader incumbent in the same atmospheric and climate simulation space.
• NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research): U.S. federally funded atmospheric science center whose WRF-Sfire and WRF models are core technologies reused inside HiDALGO2's wildfire and renewable-energy pilots; a comparable large-scale HPC-for-environmental-science organization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HiDALGO2_EU
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCajIi2XMTsQRDMKcvgvoaAg
• Facebookfacebook.com/EU.Project.HiDALGO
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hidalgo2-project

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

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