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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New Book Publication on Software Security

We are pleased to share that Elisa R. Heymann, member of our research group, has co-authored the new book Introduction to Software Security together with Barton P. Miller.

The book offers a practical introduction to software security, covering secure coding, vulnerability prevention, testing, and common security threats such as buffer overflows, injection attacks, and web vulnerabilities.

This publication represents an important contribution to the dissemination of knowledge in the area of software security and reinforces the strong research and educational activity carried out within our group.

We warmly congratulate Elisa R. Heymann on this achievement and celebrate this new international collaboration and academic contribution.

Introduction to Software Security

https://amzn.eu/d/03A406ab

Authors: Barton P. Miller and Elisa R. Heymann

Publication date: May 2026

New PhD Thesis Successfully Defended

We are pleased to announce the successful defense of the PhD thesis by María de los Ángeles Harita Rascón, held on Thursday, April 30 at 12:00 PM.

Her thesis, entitled:

“Design and Application of a Heuristic Methodology for Solving Complex Optimization Problems”

The thesis was supervised by Dr. Emilio Luque and Dr. Dolores Rexachs.

We warmly congratulate María de los Ángeles Harita Rascón on this important academic achievement and wish her continued success in her future research career.

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