Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid
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Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
) depends on the Computer Science Faculty of the Technical University of Madrid
Technical University of Madrid
The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid is a Spanish University, located in Madrid. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Architecture, originated mainly in the 18th century...
. This center houses Magerit
Magerit
Magerit is the name of the one of the most powerful supercomputers of Spain. It also reached the second best Spanish position in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.This computer is installed in CeSViMa, a research center of the Technical University of Madrid....
, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Spain. This center is a member of the Spanish Supercomputing Network
Spanish Supercomputing Network
The Spanish Supercomputing Network is a scientific network created by the Spanish Education Ministry. The network is composed by several supercomputers distributed over Spain...
, the Spanish e-Science Network and the Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
Laboratories and Infraestructures Network.
History
In 2004 CeSViMa was created by the Technical University of MadridTechnical University of Madrid
The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid is a Spanish University, located in Madrid. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Architecture, originated mainly in the 18th century...
and CIEMAT. The aim of the center is to provide computation resources to the researchers of Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
provided the supercomputer Magerit in the center. The center also has an interactive 3D visualization infrastructure
Three-dimensional space
Three-dimensional space is a geometric 3-parameters model of the physical universe in which we live. These three dimensions are commonly called length, width, and depth , although any three directions can be chosen, provided that they do not lie in the same plane.In physics and mathematics, a...
and a terrestrial scanner.
In 2007 CeSViMa joined the Spanish Supercomputing Network
Spanish Supercomputing Network
The Spanish Supercomputing Network is a scientific network created by the Spanish Education Ministry. The network is composed by several supercomputers distributed over Spain...
and the supercomputer Magerit
Magerit
Magerit is the name of the one of the most powerful supercomputers of Spain. It also reached the second best Spanish position in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.This computer is installed in CeSViMa, a research center of the Technical University of Madrid....
was upgraded.
In May 2008, the center migrated all its infrastructure to a new building in the newly created in the International Excellence Campus of Montegancedo, site of Scientific and Technologic Park of the Technical University of Madrid (40°24′15.65"N 03°50′4.75"W). The supercomputer was upgraded again and reach 16 TFLOPS. 60% of the supercomputer CPU time is used for RES research; the remaining 40% is used for Madrid research.
During 2009 the center joined the Spanish e-Science Network and the Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
Laboratories and Infrastructures Network.
In 2011 a full upgrade of Magerit
Magerit
Magerit is the name of the one of the most powerful supercomputers of Spain. It also reached the second best Spanish position in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.This computer is installed in CeSViMa, a research center of the Technical University of Madrid....
supercomputer put it as one of the most powerful supercomputers of Spain.
Research
The Spanish project Cajal Blue BrainBlue Brain
The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.The aim of the project, founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is to study the brain's architectural...
is carrying out in the facilities of the CeSViMa. The project also uses the computing resources of Magerit supercomputer
The center also organizes conferences about supercomputing, new developments in hardware and software, scientific publications... and other science activies. For example, it collaborates in the retransmission of a Solar eclipse
Solar eclipse
As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun as viewed from a location on Earth. This can happen only during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. At least...
from Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
External links
- Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de Madrid
- CeSViMa at Spanish Wikipedia
- CeSViMa at UPM website