We have been working very hard to release a new and much improved rework of CosmoHub.
This new version builds up on big data technologies to be able to analyze and create custom catalogs of hundreds of millions of objects in a matter of seconds.
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El PIC amplia a 20 Gbps la seva connexió a l’anella científica
El Port d’Informació Científica (PIC) ha ampliat la connexió dedicada de què disposa a l’Anella Científica de 10 a 20 Gbps i passa a ser la primera institució que s’hi connecta a aquesta velocitat.
Durant el 2016, el PIC ha rebut i enviat més de 20 PB de dades provinents d’experiments científics d’abast internacional a través de l’Anella Científica i RedIRIS. Els fitxers amb què treballa contenen informació sobre les col·lisions de protons dins el Large Hadron Collider (LHC); observacions del telescopi MAGIC de raigs gamma emesos a l’univers; fotografies de milions de galàxies per a l’estudi de l’energia fosca de l’espai, que realitza el projecte PAU, i simulacions de l’efecte de l’energia fosca sobre l’expansió de l’univers per als projectes DES i EUCLID. Aquestes dades són emmagatzemades i analitzades per investigadors de diferents institucions a través de diferents plataformes de processament que té el PIC.
Per a Manuel Delfino, director del PIC, “amb aquest augment de la capacitat de connexió a l’Anella Científica podrem fer front a l’increment previst en la generació de dades de l’LHC, que arribarà a ser de l’ordre de 100 PB anuals. A més, ens permetrà desenvolupar nous serveis necessaris per gestionar dades de nous projectes, com ara EUCLID i la Xarxa de Telescopis Cherenkov (CTA)”.
€5.3 million tender for Hybrid Cloud Platform serving science
Today Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) launched a €5.3 million tender for the establishment of a European hybrid cloud platform. The purpose of the platform is to support the deployment of high-performance computing and big-data capabilities for scientific research.
PIC is part or the project.
Click here to read the press release
Click here to read the article in Datacenter Dynamics (spanish)
PIC featured in DatacenterDynamics magazine
PIC’s cooling system with oils is on the cover of the last issue of the DatacenterDynamics, a magazine about the business of data centers.
Manuel Delfino talk at Fundación BBVA
Manuel Delfino was participate in the talk “CERN’s computing at the service of science and its impact on society”.
Maite Barroso Lopez, Deputy Head Of The Information Technology Department at CERN and Pippa Wells, Inner Detector System Project Leader at the ATLAS Experiment will be keynote speakers.
PIC’s new oil cooling system featured at UAB website
The PIC computer equipment is submerged in tanks filled with mineral oil. The new system may represent up to €140,000 in yearly savings. This cooling system has an average of 40% more efficiency than those in other data centres around the world.
PIC featured on catalan television TV3
The TV channel focuses on the fact that the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is at position number 20 in the ranking of the most energetically sustainable Universities in the world.
The Port d’Informació Científica (PIC) contributes to reach this goal thanks to its measures to reduce the energetic waste. An example are the oil tanks to maintain computers at a constant temperature. The processors are cooled with an efficiency a 40% better than the normal computers.
10th International dCache Workshop organized by PIC and DESY
PIC and DESY have organized the 10th International dCache Workshop in Barcelona on the 11th and 12th of April.
The goal of dCache is to provide a system for storing and retrieving huge amounts of data, distributed among a large number of heterogenous server nodes, under a single virtual filesystem tree with a variety of standard access methods.
HTCondor and ARC-CE users Workshop
The “HTCondor and ARC-CE users Workshop” was held in ALBA Synchrotron, from from 29 February 2016 to 4 March 2016. The event was organized by ALBA and PIC, and gathered around 70 participants, mainly from Europe, US and Asia.
The workshop was an opportunity for HTCondor users to learn and get help from the HTCondor and ARC developers and experts. Many sites transitioning to HTCondor batch system (such as PIC) and newcomers spent a very productive and successful week.
Students visit PIC!
Around 150 students from secondary schools and IT professional degrees have visited PIC on several occasions during February 2016. This activity is organised by the UAB and the ESCOLAB program, an initiative of the Barcelona City Council, in which PIC takes part since 2011. About 2000 students have visited PIC since.
During these outreach events the students learn about the scientific foundations of the main areas of research at PIC as well as the fundamental role of Information Technology in Science. By exploring the largest Grid computing facility in Spain, the students realise about the important role that computing plays in modern scientific endeavour. These visits are hosted by J. Flix (coordinator), A. Pérez-Calero, J. Carretero, among other PIC members.
If you want to visit PIC, you can ask for more information here.