Federico Cipolletta

Second EUROfusion E-TASC General Meeting

The group picture taken at the second E-TASC General Meeting

Between February 9th and 13th, 2026, the 2nd General Meeting of EUROfusion Theory and Advanced Simulation Coordination (E-TASC) was held at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching, Germany. The objective of the meeting was to collaboratively discuss the key points shaping both the present and the future of the E-TASC project. More than 100 participants from Europe and the US had the opportunity to gather and contribute to the topic. Several plenary sessions were organized to enable the interaction of participants with the EUROfusion project committee. Moreover, parallel and poster sessions were held to allow possible cross-interactions between the attendees.

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Visit of BSC team to ITER

The BSC team visiting ITER. From left to right: D. Gallart, M. Mantsinen, J. M. Cela, F. Cucchietti, F. Cipolletta, T. Andrade. Photo taken by C. Moutte (ITER).

On October 2, a group from the Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (CASE) department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) visited the ITER Organisation in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France. The group included CASE director J. M. Cela; Fusion group members M. Mantsinen, D. Gallart and F. Cipolletta; and Data Pre & Post Processing group members F. Cucchietti and T. Andrade.

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JOREK code meeting in Naples

Pizzofalcone lookout, Naples, just above the meeting location.

From May 12 to 16, the 2025 JOREK general meeting was held in Naples, Italy. Nicola Isernia and colleagues from the Federico II University of Naples organized the logistics for hosting the meeting. The meeting was held in the Federico II Congress Center, via Partenope, 36, just in front of the sea and below the wonderful lookout of Pizzofalcone and very close to the historical city center of Naples.

From our research group, Federico Cipolletta, participated in the event to share the work he performed in the JOREK code.

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New feature to control the memory consumption implemented in the JOREK code

A method to control and optimize memory consumption has been implemented in the JOREK MHD code. It has been documented in the manuscript titled “Implementation of matrix compression in the coupling of JOREK to realistic 3D conducting wall structures” by Federico Cipolletta and collaborators, which was accepted for publication in the Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF) journal on 22/08/2024 and is available at this link.

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JOREK code meeting at EPFL with a visit to Swiss Plasma Center

Group picture of in-person attendees at the EPFL site

From 12/02/2024 to 16/02/2024, the 2024 JOREK code meeting was held at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized with the support of Cristian Sommariva and Mengdi Kong from the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), adopting a hybrid format. The meeting was greatly appreciated by the large community of code users and developers, with over 60 registered people, of which 30 were in-person.

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