Advanced Computing and e-Science

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  This group started its activity in 2000 to promote a research e-infrastructure at IFCA integrated and relevant at international level.
  
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• The middleware framework used has evolved from Grid computing towards Cloud.
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• The group has setup a first level computing infrastructure at national range, with visibility at international level, and participation in numerous international projects (you can see all projects of the group here).
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• The group has open new lines of activities in the last years: integration of instrumentation in the distributed computing framework, support to multidisciplinary applications, integration of solutions in the cloud platform, knowledge preservation.
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• Global Objectives:
  
• The global objective of the group is to make a relevant contribution in Data Science in analytics, engineering and open data, in different science fields, and in particular in interdisciplinary applications , profiting of the computational resources available.
  
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• Scientific Objectives:
• Contribute to the the analysis of large data volumes, like CMS experiment at LHC, using Big Data techniques.
• Integrate the different components for applications in environmental science, from sensors and data taking up to simulation and modeling, participating in projects at national and international level. 
• Participation in extremely large  simulations in a realistic context for complex systems, like those proposed in initiatives like FET in H2020. 
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• Technical Objectives:
•   •  Mantain and improve the computing infrastructure managed by the group, currently including a supercomputer, several clusters, an storage system with a capacity above 1 Petabyte, and an archiving system with an equivalent capacity, and assure its exploitation in demanding and outstanding projects at national and international level. 
•   •  Develop a complete support chain to Data Management, from data acquisition to preservation. 
  
•   •  Develop new simulation techniques using new technologies based in agents and noSQL DBMS. 
•   •  Study the scalability of these techniques in the HPC context, for supercomputers, Grid systems, Cloud and clusters.
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• If you need more information visit our wiki: confluence.ifca.es
  
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      You can see all projects of the group here.

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