The Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid (CeSViMa), also called Madrid Supercomputing and Visualization Center (in Spanish, Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de

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), depends on the

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faculty of the

Technical University of Madrid The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Te ...

. This center houses

Magerit Magerit is the name of the one of the most powerful supercomputers in 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 Unive ...

, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Spain. This center is a member of the

Spanish Supercomputing Network The Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) is a distributed infrastructure involving the interconnexion of 12 supercomputers which work together to offer High Performance Computing resources to the scientific community. It is coordinated by the B ...

, the ''Spanish e-Science Network'' and the ''

Laboratories and Infraestructures Network''.

History

In 2004 CeSViMa was created by the

and CIEMAT. The aim of the center is to provide computation resources to the researchers of

. IBM provided the supercomputer Magerit in the center. The center also has an interactive 3D visualization infrastructure and a

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. In 2007 CeSViMa joined the

and the supercomputer

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 (). The supercomputer was upgraded again and reach 16

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. 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 ''

Laboratories and Infrastructures Network''. In 2011 a full upgrade of

supercomputer put it as the most powerful and ecological supercomputer of Spain in the July editions of

TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...

and

Green500 The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency. The list measures performance per watt using the TOP500 measure of high performance LINPACK benchmarks at double-precisi ...

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Research

The Spanish branch of the international project

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(called Cajal Blue Brain) 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 activities. For example, it collaborates in the retransmission of a

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from

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, Russia.Solar Eclipse Broadcasting, August 1st, 2008

References

External links

Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de Madrid

CeSViMa at UPM website
{{authority control Research institutes in the Community of Madrid Technical University of Madrid Supercomputer sites Spanish Supercomputing Network