Photo: (From left to right: Dr. Santiago Giralt, Director of GEO3BCN-CSIC; Dr. Manish Prabhakar Kale and Mohan Labade (C-DAC); and Dr. Arnau Folch, ChEESE Coordinator.)
In the first week of June, ChEESE partners welcomed a delegation from India as part of the ongoing collaboration with the GANANA project. Representatives from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), including Dr. Manish Prabhakar Kale, Scientist F in the HPC Earth Science, Engineering & Geospatial Application Group, and computational fluid dynamics specialist Dr. Mohan Labade, visited the Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Three additional members of the delegation travelled to the University of Málaga, where they worked with researchers from the EDANYA Group.
The visit focused on advancing scientific and technical collaboration around two flagship applications of the ChEESE ecosystem: FALL3D, used for volcanic ash dispersion modelling, and Tsunami-HySEA, a leading tsunami simulation code developed by the University of Málaga. Through joint hands-on sessions, researchers exchanged expertise on high-performance computing (HPC), code development and the application of advanced simulation tools for natural hazard assessment.
GANANA is an international cooperation project that brings together European HPC Centres of Excellence, including BioExcel, ChEESE and ESiWACE3, with leading Indian institutions such as C-DAC, IMD, ISR, NII and AIRAWAT. The initiative aims to strengthen scientific collaboration, support knowledge exchange and capacity building, improve the performance and usability of key scientific software, and explore frameworks for long-term cooperation between Europe and India.
Visits such as this one play an important role in building lasting international partnerships. By bringing together researchers, software developers and HPC experts from different institutions and countries, these exchanges help accelerate innovation, foster mutual learning and ensure that advanced computational tools can better support society in addressing natural hazards and other scientific challenges.
The collaboration between GANANA and ChEESE demonstrates how shared expertise and access to world-class computing infrastructures can create new options for scientific excellence, while amplifying connections between research communities.
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- Published
- 13 June 2026
- Authors
- Varvara Vedia ChEESE-2P Dissemination Team
- Photos
- Varvara Vedia & EDANYA Group, University of Málaga
