The power of computational science
Our sustainable future lies in the computing power of computers. Whether it’s developing clean energy sources, making the food chain more sustainable or managing water that resists desiccation, salinization and sea level rise, the challenges of building a sustainable society are great. Computational sciences can provide insight and grip on those issues like no other.
The National Agenda shows how the field can become a pathfinder for the innovations that make a sustainable society possible. An interdisciplinary field for interdisciplinary questions: computational science takes its inspiration from scientific and social fields, and uses mathematical models and advanced computational schemes to answer those questions efficiently.
The power of computational science
Our sustainable future lies in the computing power of computers. Whether it’s developing clean energy sources, making the food chain more sustainable or managing water that resists desiccation, salinization and sea level rise, the challenges of building a sustainable society are great. Computational sciences can provide insight and grip on those issues like no other.
The National Agenda shows how the field can become a pathfinder for the innovations that make a sustainable society possible. An interdisciplinary field for interdisciplinary questions: computational science takes its inspiration from scientific and social fields, and uses mathematical models and advanced computational schemes to answer those questions efficiently.
Areas of focus
Areas of focus
The Netherlands is excellently positioned for breakthroughs in five strategic focus areas in global computational science. Together, these provide the tools to address the challenges in the highly connected issue of sustainable water, food and energy:
- Multiscale modeling and simulation
- Data-driven methods
- Ultra-fast computer simulations via machine learning
- Uncertainties and sensitivity analyses
- Energy efficient computing
Significant progress in each of these areas is the prerequisite to make computational science a game-changer in sustainability issues.
Investment and innovation in Dutch computational sciences
The Netherlands has a strong position in computational sciences in higher education, and has a solid infrastructure for large simulations. The agenda identifies opportunities and challenges to bring the broad field together, in the areas of knowledge exchange between the different computational sciences (community building), strengthening the training capacity of computational scientists (HBO, WO and PhD students) and the expansion of large university computational clusters.
This requires an investment impulse that also stimulates research in the five strategic focus areas. Thus, the five strategic focus areas accelerate to the level to meet the challenges in water, food and energy.
The Netherlands faces great challenges on its way to a sustainable future. The computational sciences want and can be the pathfinder that realizes innovations and technologies to make that future a reality.
The Computational Science NL platform contributes to achieving the stated goals of the national agenda
Building Blocks
Building Blocks
To achieve the stated goals for human capital, hardware and software in the national agenda, four lines of action, or building blocks, have been defined for the roadmap from which we will build:
- Strengthening Knowledge & Innovation ecosystems
- Human Capital
- Community Building
- Strengthen Infrastructure
These building blocks are going to ensure that computational science is strengthened with respect to community, knowledge and innovation, infrastructure and human capital.
