Our Group integrates a series of lines of research, interrelated and developed in the context of High Performance Computing (HPC)

Research Lines

Considering HPC for Apps & Simulation, the main research lines focuses on two broad areas:

  1. HPC Technology
  2. Applications with Societal Impact

Detailed subjects:

Our project aims to provide solutions to the following problems, while it creates the corresponding technology that allows these solutions to be transferred:

  1. Performance and Efficiency in the use of HPC resources
    • Effect of the interconnection network on the performance of applications
    • Performance prediction. Scalability.
    • Efficient execution of applications: programming model, energy consumption, heterogeneous multicore.
  2. Availability of HPC resources (available to user)
    • Fault tolerance for HPC in numerical (technical-scientific) and transactional applications.
    • Integrity against attacks in use and/or access to the HPC resources (Vulnerability)
  3. Design and optimization of HPC systems, for “workloads” specific (application-specific domains)
    • CPU, network interconnection, I/O & Availability
    • Support tools (simulation)
  4. Social projection (impact) applications (solutions to problems of social impact -smart applications-, which require the capacity of HPC systems):
    • Simulation and optimization of Emergency Services in Hospitals (Smarter Health Services)
    • Simulation of Individuals oriented Models
      • HPCNelogo: Environment for the concurrent execution of ABM models under Netlogo-Behavior Space in an unattended/remote way on an HPC cluster using SGE (Github).
    • Simulation and optimization of movements of individuals in constrained environments (Smart Evacuations): Emergency Evacuations.
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Our Research Group at ICCS 2026

Our research group participated in the 26th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2026), held from 29 June to 1 July 2026 at DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

During the conference, two members of our group presented their latest research contributions:

Mercè Planas presented “Proactive Forecasting with a Digital Twin in Emergency Departments: Preserving Key Performance Indicators Values”.

Francisco Mesas presented “From Formal Specifications to Executable Simulations: A Computation-Driven Metasystem for Agent-Based Modeling”.

Their participation at ICCS 2026 reflects our group’s ongoing commitment to advancing research in computational science, digital twins, simulation, and intelligent systems.

Congratulations to Mercè and Francisco on their successful presentations and for representing our research group at this prestigious international conference.

Doctoral Thesis Progress Meetings (June 2026)

Congratulations to Gerard Enrique, Antonio González, Ana Candelaria Álvarez, Miquel Albert, Mercedes Planas, Francisco Mesas, and Samuel Isai Cota for successfully presenting their PhD progress reviews this week.

Their presentations highlighted the ongoing advances of their research projects and the commitment, effort, and perseverance required throughout the doctoral journey.

As a research group, we are pleased to see the continued progress of our PhD candidates and their contributions to scientific research.

We wish them every success in the next stages of their doctoral studies.

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