Hyperion Research, the globally recognized premier industry analyst and market intelligence firm covering high performance computing (HPC), AI, cloud, quantum, and associated emerging markets, today announced the recipients of the 17th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards.

Among the winners were Bettair Cities SL, Spain for their work with neural network surrogates of large dataset CFD simulations.

Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe and a major cause of premature death and disease, but most urban air quality problems are hyper-local (e.g., land use, traffic). The Bettair team ran CFD simulations of wind flow and dispersion patterns on a large data set and trained a DNN to simulate the results at a fraction of the time and cost of previous approaches.

This research empowers local communities, municipalities, and regional governments with accessible, actionable information about local emissions in real-time.

The work has been funded within the FF4EuroHPC European project, Experiment 1012: Improving Bettair Air Quality Maps. Part of the project was performed by a team from the Barcelona Supercomputing center using ALYA.