1. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Name
Position

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3. Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
BSC-CNS objectives
Supercomputing services
to Spanish and
EU researchers
R&D in Computer,
Life, Earth and
Engineering Sciences
PhD programme,
technology transfer,
public engagement
BSC-CNS is
a consortium
that includes
Spanish Government %
Catalan Government %
Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) %

4. The Evolution of the Research Paradigm
Numerical Simulation and Big Data Analysis
Reduce expense
Avoid suffering
Help to build knowledge where experiments are impossible or not affordable

5. HPC: An enabler for all scientific fields
Materials, Chemistry & Nanoscience
Engineering
Astro,
High Energy
& Plasma Physics
Advances leading to:
Improved Healthcare
Better Climate Forecasting
Superior Materials
More Competitive Industry
Life Sciences & Medicine
Earth Sciences

6. The MareNostrum 4 supercomputer
Total peak performance:
13,7 Pflops/s
Access: prace-ri.eu/hpc-access
Access: bsc.es/res-intranet

7. (Sample Divider)

8. Mission of BSC Scientific Departments
Computer
Sciences
Earth Sciences
To influence the way machines are built, programmed and used: programming models, performance tools, Big Data, computer architecture, energy efficiency
To develop and implement global and regional state-of-the-art models for short- term air quality forecast and long-term climate applications
Life
Sciences
CASE
To develop scientific and engineering software to efficiently exploit super-computing capabilities (biomedical, geophysics, atmospheric, energy, social and economic simulations)
To understand living organisms by means of theoretical and computational methods (molecular modeling, genomics, proteomics)

9. Computer Sciences Influence the way machines are
BUILT
PROGRAMMED
USED
Holistic Computer Architecture Research
20 years innovating in Programming Models
Performance Analytics Tools: From Data to Insight
In the
context of
Race towards Exascale
HPC and Big Data convergence
Artificial Intelligence era
Multiple architectures for different applications domains

10. Life Sciences Personalized Medicine Machine Learning
Understanding living organisms by theoretical and computational methods
Machine Learning
Computational genomics
Protein and drug modeling
Personalized
Medicine
Computational Genomics: Development and use of protocols and tolos for comparative genomics and genome analysis.
Protein and drug modelling: Computational approaches to protein and protein - drug interaction at atomic detail.
HPC Machine Learning: application of the state of the art ML methods to core biomedical problems in HPC environments
Text Mining: Design, development of NLP and ML methods for the extraction and analysis of information from plain-text, i.e. HER.
Bio-Infrastructure: HPC based systems for the storage, organization and linkage of large collection of biological data (as part of INB-ISCIII and ELIXIR-ES)
Social Impact: Combine NLP and BigData methods to the evaluation of social impact of projects and community efforts.
Text Mining
Evaluation of social impact
Bio-Infrastructure

11. Earth Sciences
Environmental modelling and forecasting, with a particular focus on weather, climate and air quality
Modeling
air quality and
Sand and Dust Storms
Processes from urban to
Global and the impacts
on weather, health
and ecosystems
Research
and
Forecasts
Climate
predictions
system from
subseasonal-to-decadal
forecasts
Service Users Sectors
Infrastructures
Solar
Energy
Urban
development
Transport
Wind
Agriculture
Insurance

12. Computational Applications for Science and Engineering
Energy
Biomechanics
INDUSTRY
ORIENTED
DEPARTMENT
Smart & resilient cities
Data analytics & visualization

13. BSC & The Global IT Industry 2018

14. Collaborations with Industry
Research into advanced technologies for the exploration of hydrocarbons, subterranean and subsea reserve modelling and fluid flows
Research on wind farms optimization and wing energy production forecasts
Collaboration agreement for the development of advanced systems of deep learning with applications to banking services
Advanced statistical methods to the optimization of maintenance, energy usage, and control of the city's water treatment and supply processes.
Simulations to improve the understanding of the rotating wheels flow physics and its impact over the aerodynamic performance
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data techniques to improve the quality of care and personalized diagnosis

15. Thank you