The supercomputing centers of UNESP and UFRJ already participate in the Intel PCC
Intel has selected Senai Cimatec's Supercomputing Center for Industrial Innovation in Bahia as one of the members of its “Intel Parallel Computing Centers” (Intel PCC) program. More than 50 parallel computing centers around the world are part of the Intel PCC. Intel PCC SENAI Bahia joins a group of high-profile institutions, which includes ETH Zürich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stanford and Wisconsin Universities, Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh. In Brazil, the supercomputing centers of UNESP and UFRJ are already part of the program.
“The Senai Bahia Supercomputing Center, which hosts the largest supercomputer in Latin America, will be the third Intel PCC located in Brazil. Intel PCCs are centers dedicated to the development of cutting-edge applications and training of human resources specialized in high-performance computing”, highlights Fernando Martins, executive director of Intel Brazil. “Intel sees great opportunities for high-performance computing in Brazil, and the arrival of another supercomputing center to our program proves the excellence of the work being carried out in the country”.
Recent innovations in parallel computing, involving systems with multicore processors, are opening up new opportunities for high-performance processing (HPC) in several areas of knowledge. Intel PCCs will help develop, improve and modernize software to increase parallelism (ability to perform multiple computational calculations simultaneously) in scientific and industrial applications. By encouraging advances in scalability (the ability to use computational resources on a high scale to address larger or more complex problems), the centers seek to accelerate discoveries in different areas of scientific research.
As a member of the Intel PCC, Senai Bahia plays a key role in building the foundations for the Supercomputing Center to become a benchmark of excellence in the optimization and modernization of HPC code on Intel platforms, exploring the new features of the Intel Xeon processor family. and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor family. In addition to research, another strategic objective is the training of local workforce specialized in HPC.
“Through the IPCC of Senai Bahia, Brazil establishes a strategic pole in the training of professionals specialized in bringing the differential that the industry needs to compete at a global level”, says Leone Peter, regional director of Senais Bahia. “With support from Intel, the Senai Cimatec Supercomputing Center will promote know-how and cutting-edge technology with an industrial bias and help meet the current Brazilian demand for instruments that generate innovation”.
Senai Cimatec's Supercomputing Center for Industrial Innovation prioritizes the study and improvement of the technology called Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) for processing 3D and 4D seismic data of industrial dimensions. The project has among its partners the oil and gas company BG Brasil and collaborates with research from Imperial College London (England), a world reference in FWI.
The partnership will contribute to the development of studies in complex oil and gas fields, including the exploration of the pre-salt layer. With the entry to the Intel PCC, Senai Bahia will have access to varied resources such as training, financing, hardware, software tools and technical support.
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