Some INGV researchers, together with their collaborators from NGI in Norway and the University of Malaga in Spain, won 70 million core hours on the CINECA supercomputer "Marconi100" (https://www.hpc.cineca.it/hardware/marconi100) in the 21st PRACE call (https://prace-ri.eu/call/prace-21st-call-for-proposals-for-project-access/).
This will allow to estimate the tsunami hazard with an unprecedented resolution through a probabilistic approach based on the exploration of uncertainties.
Results of this study will contribute in the future to better planning for tsunami risk reduction in the Mediterranean Sea and in particular in Italy, where they will be used by SiAM, the National tsunami risk alert system, in which CAT-INGV operates.
These and other applications are being developed within ChEESE (https://cheese-coe.eu/), a European project that aims to create a European Centre of Excellence for supercomputing in Solid Earth Sciences, to exploit as well as possible the future pre-Exascale and Exascale supercomputers.
The INGV is a partner of the ChEESE consortium and, together with other international research centers, works to improve the hazard assessment and rapid modelling of the effects of natural phenomena of higher social impact, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, using increasingly detailed processing scales on large areas of interest.