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FORO INTERNACIONAL DE LA
INNOVACIÓN
INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION FORUM
13:00-14:00 h. Mesa redonda – Round table
LA TRANSFERENCIA DE CONOCIMIENTO EN LOS CENTROS DE
EXCELENCIA SEVERO OCHOA
THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
SEVERO OCHOA
www.bsc.es
Technology Transfer at BSC-CNS
Mateo Valero
BSC Director
Málaga, 12th February 2015
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
BSC-CNS objectives:
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R&D in Computer, Life, Earth and Engineering Sciences
Supercomputing services and support to Spanish and
European researchers
BSC-CNS is a consortium that includes:
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Spanish Government
Catalonian Government
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
51%
37%
12%
425 people, 41 countries
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The MareNostrum 3 Supercomputer
Over 1015 Floating Point Operations per second
Nearly 50,000 cores
100.8 TB of main memory
2 PB of disk storage
70% distributed through PRACE
24% distributed through RES
6% for BSC-CNS use
Simulation on Supercomputers helps to solve
scientific, industrial and societal challenges
Environment
Climate prediction
Life Sciences
Personalised
medicine
Engineering
Industrial process
improvement
Energy
Oil exploration
Wind farm design
Air quality
The virtual patient
Virtual prototyping
Fusion (ITER)
Mission of BSC Scientific Departments
COMPUTER
SCIENCES
To influence the way
machines are built,
programmed and used:
programming models,
performance tools, Big
Data, computer
EARTH SCIENCES
To develop and implement
global and regional state-ofthe-art models for shortterm air quality forecast and
long-term climate
applications.
architecture, energy efficiency.
LIFE SCIENCES
CASE
To understand living
organisms by means of
theoretical and
computational methods
(molecular modeling,
genomics, proteomics).
To develop scientific and
engineering software to
efficiently exploit supercomputing capabilities
(biomedical, geophysics,
atmospheric, energy,
social and economic simulations).
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From Research to Market
BSC Technologies
Pharma
Medical
Weather
Services /
Climate
Agencies
Renewables
Agriculture
Bioinformatic tools
for drug discovery
and finding genetic
mutations
Programming models,
performance tools &
energy efficient
hardware
HPC
Data Centres
Middleware,
System
Software
Air quality,
weather and
climate modelling
products
Simulations of
complex problems
Mobile
HPC
Smart Cities
Embedded electronics
for improving safety in
time-critical applications
IoT
Cloud
Big Data
Renewables
Medical
Nautical
Oil & Gas
Engineering
Automotive
Automotive
Rail
Pharma
Smart Cities
Aviation
Aviation
Space
Competitive Grants, all BSC Projects (since 2005)
Over 106M€ in grants and contracts
BSC achieved the
9th greatest return
from FP7 of all
Spanish institutions
according to CDTI
report 11/11/2013
Fourteen H2020
projects approved or
under negotiation
(Grant value: 5.97M€)
- Includes personnel grants and future income for approved projects 21/01/2015
- National income includes ICTS calls
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Joint Research Centres with IT Companies
BSC-IBM Technology Center
for Supercomputing
Future challenges for supercomputers
including power efficiency and scalability,
new programming models, and tools for
analysis and optimization of applications
BSC-NVIDIA CUDA
Center of Excellence
BSC-Microsoft Research Centre
Analysis of Hadoop workload performance
under different software parameters and
hardware configurations.
Results available online
Training in Parallel Programming using CUDA
and StarSs Optimising management of execution
resources in multi-GPU environments with GMAC
Intel-BSC Exascale Lab
Multi-year agreement focussing on optimising
efficiency through research into Programming
Models, Performance Tools and Applications
Agreement on
memory performance
in HPC systems with
Key Spanish Industrial Partners
Repsol-BSC Research Center
Iberdrola Renovables
Research into advanced technologies
for the exploration of hydrocarbons,
subterranean and subsea reserve
modelling and fluid flows
Mind the Gap: 500K €
Nostrum Drug Discovery
Spin off
Proof of
Concept:
150K€ PELE
Design and optimization of wind
farms
Patents
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dpEDMD: method for drug discovery
SMUFIN: Somatic Mutations Finder
miRNA markers for Morbid obesity diseases
Some Strategic Projects
Severo Ochoa
A multidisciplinary research program to address the
complex challenges in the path towards Exascale. A set of
key strategic scientific projects and improvements in HR
management, training, mobility and communication.
Mont-Blanc
Human Brain Project
10-year FET Flagship research project
to simulate human brain and design
computers based on its workings
Developing an European Exascale
approach Based on embedded powerefficient technology
Riding on Moore’s
Law
Personalised
Medicine
Combining genomics, proteomics and
transcriptomics with computer simulation
to support predictive medicine and
personalized treatment
Optimizing performance, energy consumption
and reliability of parallel computer architectures
through higher level abstraction (ERC M Valero)
Alya Red
Computational mechanics simulation tools
designed for biomedical research. Winner 2012
Science-NSF visualisation challenge
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Internationalisation
HPC Infrastructure for
Europe’s Best Scientists
Over 90 EC
Framework Projects
Part of Future Spanish
node of ICT-Labs
Bridge between EU and Latin America
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Helping to define the future of global HPC
Enabling the Data Revolution
International Roadmapping
Leadership in Exascale
Contributing to Standardisation
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Suggestions on how to facilitate Technology
Transfer for Research Centres
LEGAL
– Create Agency for research
– We need a Patronage Law
– Allow public centres to use
more flexible legal forms
– MINECO and Hacienda
should remove barriers
to hiring
CULTURAL
– Promotion of a culture of
innovation and
entrepreneurship, and of
acceptance of failure
– Promotion of the concept of
R&D&i as an investment for
companies, not an expense
ECONOMIC
– Creation of organisations
specialised in Technology
Transfer and Innovation
– More investment in research
– Target funding where the
relevant expertise is
MARKET
– Creation of a strong
venture capital industry
The Future of Tech Transfer at BSC
In December 2014 BSC hired its first dedicated
Technology Transfer manager:
– To intensify relations with industry (especially SMEs)
– To manage BSCs portfolio of technology and IPR
– To help researchers consider technologies’ market
potential from the initial stages
– To help create spin-offs
– To promote a culture of tech transfer
contact: anna.escoda@bsc.es
Summary
 Supercomputing has become an essential tool for scientific and
industrial competitivity
 BSC is a centre which has critical mass and a dual role as a
service provider and internationally relevant research centre
 BSC develops transferable technologies in the areas of
computer, life, earth and engineering sciences
 We work with important national and international companies
through private contracts as well as publicly funded projects
 We plan to intensify our activities in this area and promote a
culture of technology transfer throughout the whole centre
 The government can take various measures to facilitate
Technology Transfer by research centres
www.bsc.es
Thank you !