PIC was invited to present CosmoHub at Jornadas Técnicas de RedIRIS. Jorge Carretero, astrophysics researcher at PIC showed a small presentation about the platform and did a small demo to the assistants. In case you would like to review it, you can do it here.
At the event, PIC was also rewarded with the second place in the IPv6 contest. You can check all the results here.
On the 2nd November 2016, the awards ceremony for the successful bidders of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud tender is taking place in Lyon, France, at the CC-IN2P3 (CNRS) premises, one of the main academic data centres in France and a procurer of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud).
This €5.3 million joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tender, led by CERN, will establish a European hybrid cloud platform that will support high-performance, data-intensive scientific use-cases sponsored by 10 of Europe’s leading public research organisations and co-funded by the European Commission.
A total of 28 multinational companies, SMEs and public research organisations from 12 countries submitted bids during the summer. The 4 selected consortia will be announced at the event and present their visions for the hybrid cloud platform.
This event marks the conclusion of the preparation of the pre-commercial procurement and will kick off the design phase where the four consortia compete to go through to the prototyping phase.
If you want to meet the procurers and the highly innovative consortia in Lyon, please register now. For those who cannot join us in Lyon, a webcast of the event will be available at www.hnscicloud.eu.
Join us on Wednesday 2nd November, 2016, at 2.30pm CET
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View the event agenda and details here.
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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.
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)”.
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’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 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.
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.
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.
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.