The online webinar, Global Challenges and the Built Environment: 4 HPC Applications and Use Cases, will be organized by the Centre de compétence HPC, HPDA et IA (NCC France) and the CoE HiDALGO2 on 12 January 2026.
This short webinar will present four concrete use cases in high-performance computing, illustrated with real-world demonstrations, workflows and applied examples. It is designed to show how advanced numerical models, large-scale simulations, and digital twins are used today to support decision-making, risk assessment, and innovation in the built environment.
The four use cases are:
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Transscalar simulation of forest fires and their impact on populated areas using CFD solutions on HPC clusters, presented by David Caballero from MeteoGrid (Spain).
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City-scale energy simulation for the built environment: from data to HPC simulations and decision support, presented by Christophe Prudhomme from Cemosis - Centre for Modelling and Simulation, University of Strasbourg (France).
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Thermomechanical calculation of walls during a fire in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, presented by Pierre Morenon from Laboratoire Matériaux et Durabilité des Constructions (LMDC), Toulouse (France).
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A high-resolution real-time digital twin for urban air with applications to wind comfort and modelling of hazardous gas dispersion at the city level, presented by Zoltan Horvat from MathSO - Research Group for Mathematical Simulation and Optimization, Széchenyi István University (Hungary).
The webinar is aimed at a diverse group, including researchers, industry experts, SMEs in the technology sector, policymakers and public authorities, as well as the general public interested in HPC, simulation and technology.
