1. E-Science/HPC and colaboration with spanish HPC infrastructures
Pedro Alberto
Laboratory for Advanced Computing of the University of Coimbra
UC - LCA
E-Science Salamanca

2. LCA Activities Computing clusters since 1998
Data center at the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra (UC)
Moving to renewed UC Data Center in 2018
Milipeia
Navigator
E-Science Salamanca

3. LCA Activities
Supported research through CPU time allocation since 2007
Material Science, QCD, CFD, Molecular Dynamics, Astrophysics, Cosmology, High Energy Physics, Biomedicine
Recently: fire propagation simulations
Users training
HPC workshops
E-Science Salamanca

4. LCA – HPC e-infrastructure
2014
included in the national roadmap of FCT - Financing started in 2017
Collaborations with other portuguese scientific infrastructures
E-infrastructures - INCD and RCTS
Brain research - BIN
Data processing - ENgAGE SKA
GenomePortugal …
Research Centers and enterprises
E-Science Salamanca

5. International connections
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe)
founding member
Participation in PRACE preparatory and implementation european projects 1IP-5IP
Partners: IST and Univ. Evora.
Next: U. Porto and U. Minho
Member of IDC HPC (now Hyperion Research) Technical Computing Advisory PaneI
MoU – Berlin 2007
PRACE AISBL – Brussels 2010
E-Science Salamanca

6. Spanish colaborations and partnerships
FP7 Project RISC ( ) - A Network for Supporting the Coordination of Supercomputing Research between Europe and Latin America - coordinated by BSC
Part of the Sesame network – HPC for SMEs (CESGA)
Contacts with COMPUTAEX (Caceres)
Cybersecurity – HPC proposal lead by SCAYLE (Centro de Supercomputación de Castilla y León)
E-Science Salamanca

7. Supporting e-Science E-Infrastructure networks
Portugal – RNCA National Network for Advanced Computing is being setup
Europe – PRACE, EuroHPC, EUDAT, EGI, GEANT
Research Programs and initiatives to promote digital competences
Portugal – InCode 2030
Europe - European Open Science Cloud
E-Science Salamanca

8. Prespectives for e-Science
Comments:
There is now a big focus at European level on Digital resources for Science, Technology, Society at large
Make sure the top-down approach is compatible with the existing networks and expertise
Hot topics (for cooperation)
Bioinformatics/Precision medicine
Machine Learning /Deep Learning
E-Science Salamanca