{"id":168,"date":"2010-01-21T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/inici\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:52:59","slug":"inici","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table alignleft is-style-regular has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1417\" style=\"width: 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/289\/2023\/02\/Logo-Template-RE_Logo_16-v2-small.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/289\/2023\/02\/Logo-Template-RE_Logo_16-v2-small.png 400w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/289\/2023\/02\/Logo-Template-RE_Logo_16-v2-small-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><br><br>Our Group integrates a series of lines of research, interrelated and developed in the context of <strong>High Performance Computing<\/strong> (HPC)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Lines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The HPC4EAS research group focuses on <strong>High-Performance Computing (HPC), efficient and secure computing, heuristic methods, and high-performance simulation<\/strong>, with particular attention to Artificial Intelligence applications and intelligent healthcare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research is organized into three main areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Efficient and Secure Execution in HPC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research on methodologies, models, and tools to improve the efficient and secure execution of applications on HPC and Cloud Computing infrastructures, with particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Performance Modeling of AI Applications in HPC and Cloud Computing<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Performance analysis and modeling of AI applications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance prediction and scalability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efficient mapping of applications onto computing resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computational and energy efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Efficient HPC I\/O Management for AI Applications<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Characterization and analysis of I\/O behavior in AI workloads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efficient management of data access and movement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance and scalability of HPC storage and I\/O systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strategies for improving the execution efficiency of data-intensive AI applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fault Tolerance and Security in HPC Systems<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fault-tolerance mechanisms for HPC environments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integration of fault tolerance and security.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Software vulnerability analysis and attack detection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resilience and secure execution of HPC applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Heuristic Algorithms for Complex Problems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research on computationally efficient heuristic and metaheuristic methods for finding optimal, near-optimal, or high-quality solutions to complex problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Metaheuristic Search in Multidimensional Spaces<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Design and evaluation of metaheuristic search algorithms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exploration of large and complex solution spaces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computationally efficient search strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Application of Heuristic Methods<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resource allocation and configuration in HPC systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intelligent management and decision-support problems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Application of heuristic approaches across the group&#8217;s HPC and healthcare research activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Simulation and Management of Intelligent Healthcare Systems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research on modeling, simulation, and intelligent decision-support systems for healthcare applications, combining HPC, Artificial Intelligence, and Agent-Based Modeling (ABM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evaluation of mobility scenarios affecting emergency services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Emergency Department Simulation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Modeling and simulation of hospital Emergency Departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Development of configurable and on-demand simulators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Simulation-based decision support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Automatic and Intelligent Emergency Department Management \u2013 AIMED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Intelligent management of healthcare resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Decision-support systems for Emergency Departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Digital Twin approaches to anticipate system behavior and critical situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Resilience of Emergency Departments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Analysis of healthcare services under disruptive and extreme situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Strategies to maintain service performance under overload conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Simulation of accidents, catastrophes, pandemics, and other critical scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>High-Performance Agent-Based Simulation for Chronic Diseases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-High-performance Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Modeling the progression of chronic diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Support for healthcare decision-making, with particular attention to Chronic Kidney Disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Agent-Based Simulation of Urban Mobility and Emergency Traffic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Modeling urban mobility using Agent-Based Simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Analysis of high-priority emergency traffic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"mailto:gr.hpc4eas@uab.cat\">Contact us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News<\/h2>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><p>New CORA Dataset on Parallel I\/O in Distributed Deep Learning<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edixon Parraga and collaborators<\/strong> have made a new research dataset openly available through <strong>CORA &#8211; Research Data Repository<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Replication Data for: Parallel I\/O Analysis in Distributed Deep Learning Applications on High-Performance Computing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dataset contains experimental data from the study of <strong>parallel I\/O in distributed Deep Learning workloads on HPC systems<\/strong>. Its publication provides the scientific community with access to the data behind the research, supporting further analysis, comparison, and reproducibility of the results.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Access the dataset:<\/strong><br>DOI: 10.34810\/DATA3618<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\">\r\n\t<a href=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download=\"\"><\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/div><p><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><p>New Research Datasets Published in CORA<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two new research datasets by<strong> Maria Harita Rasc\u00f3n<\/strong> and collaborators have been published in <strong>CORA &#8211; Research Data Repository<\/strong>, reinforcing our commitment to open science and reproducible research.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The datasets provide replication data supporting research on sampling- and clustering-based heuristic search algorithms and their application to optimization problems:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replication Data for: <strong>A Metaheuristic Search Algorithm Based on Sampling and Clustering<\/strong><br>DOI: 10.34810\/DATA3157<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replication Data for: <strong>Application of a sampling and clustering-based heuristic search algorithm to find an efficient staff configuration in an emergency department<\/strong><br>DOI: 10.34810\/DATA2951<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These publications make the experimental data openly available to the research community, facilitating the validation, reuse, and reproducibility of the research results.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\">\r\n\t<a href=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download=\"\"><\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News Blog<\/h2>\n\n\n\r\n<ul class=\"news\">\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<li class=\"news-list-item\">\r\n\t\r\n\t<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/blog\/jcc2024\/\">JCC2024<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\t<span class=\"data\">2024-11-03 08:42<\/span>\r\n\t<p><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n<li class=\"news-list-item\">\r\n\t\r\n\t<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/blog\/iccs-2024\/\">ICCS 2024<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\t<span class=\"data\">2024-07-28 08:02<\/span>\r\n\t<p><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n<li class=\"news-list-item\">\r\n\t\r\n\t<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/blog\/pdpta-2024\/\">PDPTA 2024<\/a><\/h2>\r\n\t<span class=\"data\">2024-07-25 06:28<\/span>\r\n\t<p><\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hpc4eas\/blog-entries\/\">More blog entries<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Group integrates a series of lines of research, interrelated and developed in the context of High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Lines The HPC4EAS research group focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC), efficient and secure computing, heuristic methods, and high-performance simulation, with particular attention to Artificial Intelligence applications and intelligent healthcare systems. 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