SCIENCE

• Puertos del Estado, Umana Ingeniería and CENER are some of the institutions and companies that will present their experience in simulation.
• Research on drugs for Alzheimer, Oceanographic Prediction System, and the modeling of wind turbines among the topics of the meeting.

HPC is an essential tool for innovation. Increasingly, the scientific disciplines that use it to conduct research that otherwise would entail years of work or would be impossible. In many industries today is unimaginable without the design process simulation, which saves costs and time increasing their competitiveness. Supercomputing centers are as a meeting place for scientists and entrepreneurs to know where the real problems and needs of industry and scientific solutions through the tools of calculation.

The annual scientific day CESGA High Performance Computing and Networking 2010, to be held on Thursday 25 November at the Faculty of Mathematics, Santiago de Compostela, is a forum that brings together research groups and companies interested in innovation by computational tools . The experiences of industrial innovation and scientific research CESGA users, needs and future requirements of users for the advancement of their research and scientific and technologic supply CESGA available to science and industry will be the axis of meeting.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Is remarkable the presence of companies, research institutes and public research in this journey. Thus, Marcos Sotillo, Puertos del Estado, will present the development of the new European System of Marine Prediction in the Atlantic Coast, the result of the European project MYOC. Scientific-technical cooperation on the simulation analysis of the marine environment for the construction of models in oceanography. Considered as a quantum leap for marine science in Spain, the tools developed in this work will be used for studies of climate change, marine resource management and disaster prevention.

The National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain, CENER, meanwhile explain innovation in the field of aerodynamics through commercial and research projects being developed to create a new generation of wind turbines using numerical simulation in the design.

MEDICAL PROGRESS

International research groups CESGA users, use cases presented FINISTERRAE supercomputer, as recent research for new drugs against malaria, which exposed Dr. Hugo Gutierrez de Teran, Galician Public Foundation Xenómica Medicine, or DrugsForAgeing project, identification of drug targets and inhibiting compounds that can be used in the development of new drugs against Alzheimer's, featuring Xavier Daura, Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

WORKING WITH THE CESGA

The possibilities and tools CESGA as Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructure computing and the needs of users of the center will have a prominent space in this meeting also aims to show potential users the features and technical requirements for use. The challenges and future needs, provided by users of today and the opportunity to meet the infrastructure and technologies available in the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, make this annual meeting a must for all researchers, innovators and engineers whose business depends or turns around the use of computer systems, storage or advanced networks for modeling, simulation and virtual prototyping.

Day Program

Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010 Time: 9:30 to 18:30 h. Location: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Mathematics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Organizers: CESGA

Collaborators: Rede GHPC, CESGA Node i-MATH

THE CESGA Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA) that depends on the Ministry of Economy and Industry of the Xunta de Galicia and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) is an organization with a history of 18 years. Its purpose is to promote and disseminate compute-intensive services and communications to the research communities of Galicia and the CSIC, as well as those companies or institutions upon request.

FINISTERRAE supercomputer managed by the CESGA and recognized as a Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (ICTS) by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, is an integrated system of 144 shared memory nodes with a total of 20,000 GB of main memory, 390,000 Gb disk and 2,580 Itanium processors. FINISTERRAE acquisition was supported by the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF.

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