FORUM TERATEC 2024

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Daniel Verwaerde

Teratec

Président

Description

Daniel Verwaerde was the head of CEA, the french Atomic Energy Commission until 2018, He previously was in charge of the Defense Division of CEA. In 1996, he was designated as the first « Director for Simulation » (the french Science based Stockpile Stewardship) when France decided to stop nuclear testing. In year 2000, he proposed to the French Government to extend the benefits of Simulation to economy and private industry, that paved the way to create Teratec and the « Computing Center for Research and Technology », which provides access to Supercomputers for private industrial companies. Daniel Verwaerde is Mathematics engineer. He developed numerical methods to solve Partial Differential Equations on High Performance Computers. Daniel Verwaerde graduated from École Centrale de Paris in 1977, where he is still teaching « Applied Mathematics for HPC ».
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