Dr. Kurt Fedra Environmental Software & Services GmbH, Austria

1. HITERM High-Performance Computing and Networking for Technological and Environmental Risk ManagementHITERM ESPRIT HPCN No. 22723 Dr. Kurt Fedra Environmental Software & Services GmbH, Austria kurt@ess.co.at http://www.ess.co.at A-2352 Gumpoldskirchen

2. HITERM HITERM Review Presentation • HITERM Consortium • Project overview: objectives • Project structure • Progress Report: Work Packages and Tasks • The Demonstrator • Administrative issues

3. HITERM HITERM Consortium • ESS, Environmental Software & Services, Austria • GMD Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology, Germany • SYRECO S.R.L. Affidabilita, Sicurezza, Software, Italy • LNEC Informatica, SA, Portugal • FCCN Fondacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional, Portugal • PETROGAL, Petroleos de Portugal SA • ASIT, Safety and Information Systems in Transport Ltd, Switzerland

4. HITERM HITERM Project Objectives develop HPCN decision support tools for technological risk management and the environment with: • better-than-real time complex simulation models (3D, dynamic) • fully integrated uncertainty analysis and error propagation (Monte Carlo) • on-line data interpretation, visualization • integrated MC decision support tools.

5. HITERM HITERM Project Structure 30 months project, overlapping development phases and test cycles: • Preparatory phase with Requirements and Constraints Report • Tool development phase: model parallelization, communication, visualization and multi-media, uncertainty analysis, decision support • Case study applications: Italy, Portugal, Switzerland

6. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 0:Project Coordination and Management WP 1:Requirements and Constraints Analysis WP 2:Model Parallelization WP 3:Communication and Networking WP 4:Visualization and Multi-media WP 5:Model Calibration, Uncertainty Analysis WP 6:Decision Support, Expert System WP 7:System Integration W 8-10: Case Studies WP 11: Analysis and Evaluation of Case Studies WP 12:Dissemination and Exploitation

7. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 0:Project Coordination and Management • installation of project web server: http://www.ess.co.at/HITERM • installation of ftp archives for document exchange • installation of e-mail list hiterm@ess.co.at • management and progress reports

8. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 1: Requirements and Constraints Analysis Report prepared by SYRECO and ASIT, with inputs from other partners (Project Deliverable D01.1) • provides guidance for subsequent design and development tasks • internal document is prepared for publishing on the web server

9. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 2:Model parallelization responsible partner: GMD first experiments on workstation clusters with: • diagnostic wind field model (running vertical layers in parallel) • Lagrangian atmospheric dispersion model (particle tracking)

10. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 3:Communication and Networking responsible partners: LNEC, FCCN • report on communication alternatives by FCCN (integrated in D01.1) • first experiments with mobile GSM client (using Java) by LNEC

11. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 4:Visualization and multi-media responsible partner: ESS • implementation of model output display as part of the demonstrator development • Java demonstrator prototype

12. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 5:Model calibration, uncertainty analysis responsible partner: GMD • implementation of a Monte-Carlo framework for the evaporation model (dynamic source term for dispersion modeling)

13. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 6:Decision support, expert system responsible partners: ESS, ASIT • linkage of a rule-based expert system with the demonstrator prototype • definition of evaluation rules • rule-based user interaction

14. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 7:System Integration responsible partners: ESS, GMD, LNEC • definition of basic client-server architecture • implementation of first client-server modules based on http protocol with • X11 based interface (high bandwidth) • Java GUI (low bandwidth)

15. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 7:System Integration moni- toring HPC server HITERM Main server http server X11 client 100Mb Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, B-ISDN Java client GSM, ISDN

16. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 8: Case Study: Portugal WP 9: Case Study: Switzerland WP 10: Case Study: Italy • data compilation and processing (reports on data availability in D01.1) • definition of accident scenarios

17. HITERM HITERM Progress Report WP 12:Dissemination and Exploitation • installation of project web server http://www.ess.co.at/HITERM • address list for project user group, on-line registration page on the web server • presentation at the RISK ‘97 in Amsterdam

18. HITERM HITERM Demonstrator • Implemented with sample GIS and installation data from San Pietro, Italy • hierarchical GIS with site selection • embedded expert system • integrated hazardous chemicals data base • diagnostic wind field model • dynamic source term (evaporation model) linked with http client-server protocol • simple Eulerian (multi-layer) dynamic dispersionmodel

19. HITERM HITERM project overview Public interest, Portugal: A truck upside down on the motorway: 400 trucks a day with no safety planning (February 4, 1997)

20. HITERM HITERM project overview Public interest, Portugal: Truck capsizes: Danger of underground water contamination (February 11, 1997)

21. HITERM HITERM project overview Public interest, Portugal: Aveiras-trucks to travel at night: Civil Protection to study further measures (March 5, 1997)

22. HITERM HITERM project overview Public interest, Portugal: Fire in refinery: Modern societies have to live with risks but they should be ready to control them (June 20, 1997)