Catalonia Space Labs
Port d’Informació Científica
The Port d’Informació Científica (PIC) is a scientific and technological centre, operated under a collaboration agreement between CIEMAT and IFAE, specialising in the development of advanced tools and methods for the analysis of scientific data. PIC participates in data-intensive research projects across multiple disciplines, such as particle physics, astrophysics, materials science and biology. Its main objective is to accelerate research by making data analysis more effective through the use of machine learning, high-performance computing and big data, as well as distributed computing to support collaborative research.
Infrastructure/equipment
Data management
Multi-petabyte scale data storage, keeping data accessible with access control.
Scalable, high-performance data space for analysing and sharing data via the web.
Long-term data preservation.
Advice on designing, deploying and operating automated data processing and analysis workflows.
Data analysis
Cluster with CPUs and GPUs for running data analysis jobs.
Web access to CPU and GPU resources via Jupyter notebooks.
Advice on deploying analysis workflows and accelerating performance.
Software development
GitLab web platform for managing version control and CI/CD.
Advising on implementing DevOps methodologies in the development of scientific software.
Training
Python.
Machine Learning.