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Who Are We? 
The Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA)
is a public consortium created in 1991 which is integrated by
the Generalitat de Catalunya, Fundació Catalana per a
la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI), nine Catalan
universities (de Barcelona, Autònoma de Barcelona,
Politècnica de Catalunya, Pompeu Fabra, de Girona,
Rovira i Virgili, de Lleida, Oberta de Catalunya and Ramon
Llull), and the Consell Superior d'investigacions
Científiques (CSIC). In 2000, it was recognized as a
scientific and technical singular facility (ICTS, in spanish) by the
Ministry of Sciencie and Innovation.
The fundamental objective of the Centre de
Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA) is to manage
infrastructures based on information and communication
technologies (e-infrastructures), in order to provide support
to universities and research, based on five activity areas,
as shown in figure: communications networks; portals and
repositories for university information; scientific and
academics computing and data-storage systems, promotion of
the use and benefits of these technologies, and operation and
maintenance of the entire Centre infrastructure.
The Portals and Repositories area provides safe, effective access to institutional websites, university websites or those related to the Information Society and to different digital repositories: dissertations (TDX), research documents (RECERCAT), scientific, cultural and academic journals (RACO), Catalan digital heritage (PADICAT), Spanish scientific and technological journals (RECYT), teaching material (MDX), documents and files of cultural interest (CALAIX), etc.
The Computing and Storage area provides four different services: High Performance Computing (HPC or CAP in Catalan) which enables the search for new materials, the discovery in treating illnesses, the reduction of negative impacts caused by human beings on the environment and the study of our galaxies; Drug Design (SDF in Catalan) that offers tools for modelling molecules of biological interest, and Data Storage (SED in Catalan) so that the computing results can be filed and proprietary and other information from the other areas of activity of the Centre to be stored; and Cooperative University Administration (AUC in Catalan), which offers access to the common e-Administration services to the Catalan universities.
The Promotion and Marketing area contributes to disseminating these services through the publication of the magazine Teraflop, the institutional website and other communication means. It also fosters training in these technologies through the organising of conferences, courses, seminars and workshops (JOCS, TAC, TSIUC...). Moreover, it coordinates the elaboration and executes the marketing strategies.
The Operations and Security area manages the entire infrastructure across the Centre, and guarantees its uninterrupted operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (S24x7), in a efficient way which is based on output and capacity indicators, and guarantees confidentiality, integrity and availability of CESCA's information as well as of services offered by the Centre.
These five areas are described in the sections located on the left frame. If you want to know more about our activities, you can read the following documents in Catalan with PDF format:
- Memòria d'activitats
de 2009 (
, 18,07 MB). - Memòria d'activitats
de 2008 (, 15,69 MB).
- Memòria d'activitats
de 2007 (, 14,02 MB).
- Memòria d'activitats
de 2006 (, 11,95 MB).
- Memòria d'activitats
de 2005 (, 12,19 MB).
- Memòria d'activitats
de 2004 (, 9,17 MB).
- Memòria d'activitats
de 2003 (, 3,97 MB).
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