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About SPACE Centre of Excellence

In astrophysics and cosmology (A&C), HPC (high performance computing)-based numerical simulations are invaluable instruments to support scientific discovery. Given the complexities of the problems, they represent essential tools for modelling, interpreting, and understanding the physical processes behind the observed sky. Advances in computational power promise a wealth of groundbreaking, new scientific discoveries by making ever greater numerical simulations feasible provided that equally advanced tools are created to exploit these computational resources. For a field like astrophysics, which is generally unsuited to laboratory experiments, the significance of this development cannot be overestimated. Future exascale computing systems are expected to have extremely complex, heterogeneous architectures. The currently used numerical simulation codes are not suitable for use on these systems since they were not purposedly designed for them and therefore cannot effectively take advantage of the superior processing capabilities promised. SPACE’s main goal, therefore, is to enable current astrophysical and cosmological codes to be used on the pre-exascale HPC architectures funded by the EuroHPC JU and made available at the end of 2022, as well as on future architectures by re-designing or adapting the existing computational tools for this next-generation hardware. It will bring together scientists, community code developers, HPC experts, hardware manufacturers, and software developers in co-design activities to re-engineer eight of the most widely used European A&C HPC codes into new products that can efficiently exploit future computing architectures. Acknowledgement Funded by the European Union. This work has received funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) and Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Spain under grant agreement No 101093441.