Every year for the past 12 years, this competition has been organized to encourage the acceleration of research and innovation, by rewarding work carried out within a French laboratory, public or private, in the fields of digital simulation and artificial intelligence.
In 2021, the prize rewards scientific excellence in Advanced Computing and Artificial Intelligence, and attaches particular importance to Decarbonation. The jury chose to reward the following projects:
- The 1st Prize was awarded to the H2HOPE or "H2OPErability for safe and clean gas turbine engines" project, from CERFACS in Toulouse. Using the AVBP code, this project aims to model at high resolution a mixed combustion process combining conventional fuels with hydrogen (bi-fuels) as one of the most promising technical solutions for achieving "net zero" CO2 emissions in the industrial sector. It was presented by Pasquale Agostinelli, Davide Laera, Laurent Gicquel, and Thierry Poinsot, from CERFACS.
- The Special Prize was awarded to the METALWALLS project, dealing with the optimization of chemical phenomena in energy storage. It consists in the development of a molecular dynamics code, unique in its functionalities and dedicated to the field of electrochemistry. The simulations carried out have considerably enhanced our understanding of chemical phenomena and the performance of batteries and supercapacitors, a key issue in the development of renewable energies. Team members come from the Maison de la Simulation, CNRS/CEA/Université Paris Saclay/INRIA, Laboratoire PHENIX, Sorbonne Université/CNRS and Laboratoire CIRIMAT, Université Toulouse 3/CNRS/INPT. They are Alessandro Coretti, Matthieu Haefele, Abel Marin-Lafleche, Céline Merlet, Benjamin Rotenberg, Mathieu Salanne and Laura Scalfi.
The 1st prize-winning team received 10,000 euros for their research, while the winners of the special prize are awarded 250,000 hours of intensive computing on GENCI supercomputers.
The prize pays tribute to mathematician Joseph Fourier, whose work in the 18th century made a major contribution to the mathematical modeling of physical phenomena. It is awarded annually in France, the Czech Republic and soon in the UK and India.
View the video of the awards ceremony.
More information: https://atos.net/fr/a-propos-d-atos/competitions/atos-prix-joseph-fouri…
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