Lenovo and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have reached an agreement on research and development in various areas of supercomputing technology. As part of the agreement, Lenovo will invest 7 million dollars in the center in three yearsan amount that will go to certain areas of high-performance computing that are priorities for Spain and for the European Union.
These areas include advancing the use of supercomputers in precision medicine, designing and developing European open source chips, and developing more sustainable supercomputers and data centers. On chips, Lenovo and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center will work within the framework of the European Chip Law and the Spanish government’s PERTE to help boost Europe’s competitiveness and autonomy in semiconductor-related technologies.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is already involved in the Laboratory Project for an Open Computing Architecture (LOCA), which is focused on the design and development of RISC-V chip technology in Europe. By including Lenovo in this project, you have a new impetus to achieve your goals.
According to him Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Mateo Valero«andThis collaboration agreement will generate significant gains for the region. Not only human and scientific, but also technological and economic«.
To address the need for more efficient supercomputers in terms of energy management, and more sustainable, a working group will be in charge with the center’s researcher Julita Corbalán at the head. Its members will work for discover better energy saving systems in the infrastructure than the current ones. Among the tools that will be designed to achieve this is software for energy optimization and management, which will integrate new technologies developed by Intel based on algorithms that Corbalán’s team has recently created.
As for precision medicine, the agreement will see the BSC work to improve understanding of the spectrum of human genome variation, and the role this plays in disease development. If it is possible to increase the production of genome data, as has been done in recent times, huge amounts of information are obtained to analyze. And it is precisely here where supercomputing resources come in, such as those that the MareNostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center can provide.
But to continue advancing in this field, a boost is needed. Exactly what the BSC team in charge of it is going to achieve, with researcher Miquel Moretó at the helm, thanks to the agreement signed with Lenovo. Now they will dedicate themselves to study of genomic analysis algorithms to design accelerators new ones to integrate into high-performance computing platforms. This will improve the future efficiency of genomic analysis.
