www.bsc.es High Performance Computing i el sector agro-alimentari Fundació Catalana per la Recerca CAFÈ AMB LA RECERCA 21 Octubre 2015 Technology Transfer Area
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about Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional de Supercomputación BSC-CNS objectives: R&D in Computer, Life, Earth and Engineering Sciences Supercomputing services and support to Spanish and European researchers BSC-CNS is a consortium that includes: Spanish Government 60% Catalonian Government 30% Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) 10% 425 people, 41 countries
The MareNostrum 3 Supercomputer Over 10 15 Floating Point Operations per second Nearly 50,000 cores 100.8 TB of main memory 2 PB of disk storage 70% distributed through PRACE 24% distributed through RES 6% for BSC-CNS use
Mission of BSC Scientific Departments COMPUTER SCIENCES To influence the way machines are built, programmed and used: programming models, performance tools, Big Data, computer architecture, energy efficiency. EARTH SCIENCES To develop and implement global and regional state-ofthe-art models for shortterm air quality forecast and long-term climate applications. LIFE SCIENCES To understand living organisms by means of theoretical and computational methods (molecular modeling, genomics, proteomics). CASE To develop scientific and engineering software to efficiently exploit supercomputing capabilities (biomedical, geophysics, atmospheric, energy, social and economic simulations).
Simulation on Supercomputers helps to solve scientific, industrial and societal challenges Environment Life Sciences Engineering Energy Climate prediction Personalised medicine Industrial process improvement Oil exploration Wind farm design Air quality The virtual patient Virtual prototyping Fusion (ITER)
Competitive Grants, all BSC Projects (since 2005) Over 106M in grants and contracts BSC achieved the 9 th greatest return from FP7 of all Spanish institutions according to CDTI report 11/11/2013 Fourteen H2020 projects approved or under negotiation (Grant value: 5.97M ) - Includes personnel grants and future income for approved projects 21/01/2015 - National income includes ICTS calls
High Performance Computing and agro-food sector
HPC and the industrial sector Many organizations are now using HPC as an essential part of their business strategy. HPC can help them design new products, optimize manufacturing and delivery processes, solve production problems, mine data, and simulate processes, all in an effort to become more competitive, profitable and green. This is done by applying compute cycles in order to solve problems in the fastest way possible: A problem that would take days to solve on a laptop can be solved on a SUPERCOMPUTER in a few minutes
Which industrial sectors are using HPC today? Bio-sciences: Drug discovery, disease detection/prevention Computer aided engineering (CAE): mechanical design and testing Chemical engineering: process and molecular design Digital content creation (DCC): computer aided graphic in film media Economics/financial: financial risk analysis Electronic design (EDA): Electronic component design and verification Geo-engineering: oil and gas exploration modeling
From Research to Market Pharma Medical Bioinformatic tools for target and drug discovery BSC Technologies Programming models, performance tools & energy efficient hardware Mobile HPC Data Centres Weather Services / Climate Agencies Renewables Agriculture Air quality, weather and climate modelling products Simulations of complex problems Middleware, System Software Embedded electronics for improving safety in time-critical applications HPC Smart Cities IoT Cloud Big Data Renewables Medical Nautical Oil & Gas Engineering Automotive Automotive Rail Pharma Smart Cities Aviation Aviation Space
BSC and FOOD INDUSTRY Life science dept. Bioinformatics and HPC can help FOOD INDUSTRY Bioinformatics is an area of research in which computer science and IT are used to process biological data HPC to do Big Data analysis in order to achieve better results in agricultural process Supercomputers working for the study of genetics and food safety
BSC and FOOD INDUSTRY CASE dept. High performance computing can help FOOD PACKAGING SECTOR To design better containers with high resistance and low weight, using simulation to determine the ideal material. Geometric design through simulation optimally food such as potatoes to ensure proper and fast processing and packaging
BSC and FOOD INDUSTRY CASE dept. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for FOOD INDUSTRY Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a simulation tool, which uses powerful computer and applied mathematics to model fluid flow situations for the prediction of heat, mass and momentum transfer and optimal design in industrial processes. It is only in recent years that CFD has been applied to the food processing industry To improve performance and system design of the filling containers or packages using complex fluid dynamic simulations
BSC and FOOD INDUSTRY EARTH dept. HPC for simulating macro global model of air quality and weather forecast that can help agriculture to achieve better results
How to collaborate with us?
How to collaborate with us? Custom R&D projects Joint Research Centers Customized R&D projects Industrial PhD Collaborating in publicly funded research projects H2020 projects National collaborative projects RIS3CAT Projects Autonomic R&D collaborative projects HPC services Applying to PRACE Research Infrastructure calls Direct agreement to use HPC capacity of BSC
BSC & Industry. 2015
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