Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid

Last updated February 25, 2019

CeSViMa Building UPM-CeSViMa.jpg — CeSViMa Building

The Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid (CeSViMa) also called Madrid Supercomputing and Visualization Center (In Spanish, Centro de Supercomputación y Visualización de Madrid) depends on the Computer Science Faculty of the Technical University of Madrid. This center houses Magerit, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Spain. This center is a member of the Spanish Supercomputing Network, the Spanish e-Science Network and the Madrid Laboratories and Infraestructures Network.

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole. The city has almost 3.2 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.5 million. It is the third-largest city in the European Union (EU), smaller than only London and Berlin, and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU, smaller only than those of London and Paris. The municipality covers 604.3 km² (233.3 sq mi).

Technical University of Madrid university in Spain

The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid is a Spanish university, located in Madrid. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Architecture, originating mainly in the 18th century. Over 35,000 students attend classes during the year.

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 University of Madrid.

History

In 2004 CeSViMa was created by the Technical University of Madrid and CIEMAT. The aim of the center is to provide computation resources to the researchers of Madrid. IBM provided the supercomputer Magerit in the center. The center also has an interactive 3D visualization infrastructure and a terrestrial scanner.

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In 2007 CeSViMa joined the Spanish Supercomputing Network and the supercomputer Magerit was upgraded.

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 Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

In May 2008, the center migrated all its infrastructure to a new building in the newly created in the International Excellence Campus of Montegancedo,^[1] site of Scientific and Technologic Park of the Technical University of Madrid ( 40°24′15.65″N03°50′4.75″W / 40.4043472°N 3.8346528°W / 40.4043472; -3.8346528 Coordinates: 40°24′15.65″N03°50′4.75″W / 40.4043472°N 3.8346528°W / 40.4043472; -3.8346528 ). The supercomputer was upgraded again and reach 16 TFLOPS. 60% of the supercomputer CPU time is used for RES research; the remaining 40% is used for Madrid research.

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During 2009 the center joined the Spanish e-Science Network and the Madrid Laboratories and Infrastructures Network.

In 2011 a full upgrade of Magerit supercomputer put it as the most powerful^[2] and ecological^[3] supercomputer of Spain in the July editions of TOP500 and Green500 lists used as reference in this matter (positions 136 and 18)

The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-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 updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second is presented at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in November. The project aims to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing and bases rankings on HPL, a portable implementation of the high-performance LINPACK benchmark written in Fortran for distributed-memory computers.

Research

Magerit Supercomputer hosted by CeSViMa UPM-CeSViMa-SupercomputadorMagerit-2010noche.jpg — Magerit Supercomputer hosted by CeSViMa

The Spanish branch of the international project Blue Brain (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 Solar eclipse from Novosibirsk, Russia.^[4]

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References

↑ I2tech Montegancedo Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ TOP500: Top 500 List June 2011
↑ Green500: Green 500 List June 2011 CeSViMa's Certificate
↑ Solar Eclipse Broadcasting, August 1st, 2008 Archived 5 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine .

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[1] I2tech Montegancedo Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine .

[2] TOP500: Top 500 List June 2011

[3] Green500: Green 500 List June 2011 CeSViMa's Certificate

[4] Solar Eclipse Broadcasting, August 1st, 2008 Archived 5 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine .