CIRCE

Project Aims

1. Clarification of the needs of the public sector for support from high-performance computers (HPC, HPDA and AI) in emergency situations and in daily monitoring in Germany
2. Identification of specific application scenarios that have such needs and in which a German national HPC centre can also be deployed at short notice
3. Identification of potential collaboration partners at the national level
4. Prototypical implementation of solutions
5. Development of a basic concept for a permanent ‘Computational Immediate Response Centre for Emergencies (CIRCE)’ within the HLRS or the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (GCS).

Project Achievements

1. Conducting a needs analysis using a qualitative approach (external events, semi-structured interviews, own events, specialist research)
2. Identification of CIRCE support scenarios: urgent computing, monitoring, HPC porting and HPC modelling
3. Identification of several collaboration partners at federal, state and regional level
4. Prototype dyke break simulation with the Duisburg fire department and agent-based simulation of intensive care bed occupancy in Germany with the Federal Institute for Population Research
5. Basic concept for a permanent ‘Computational Immediate Response Centre for Emergencies (CIRCE)’

Future Objectives

We are happy to support the public sector with our collective experience and knowledge so that the population is strengthened in crisis situations. You can find more details about the possibilities here.