FACTOS: Tecnologías avanzadas de computación para resolver retos de la sociedad
Nacional
PID2023-146193OB-100
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Principal researchers:
Antonio Espinosa
Anna Sikora
Number of participants: 37
Research team: 22
Work team: 15
The FACTOS project aims to bridge the gap between computational advancements and societal challenges, fostering innovation and impactful solutions. The general objective of the project is to address the emerging challenges of society exploiting advanced methods and technologies developed on different underlying computational platforms from accelerators through HPC to cloud infrastructures.
Societal challenges are addressed in two main work packages aligned with the selected application fields: Environment and Life Sciences.
Moreover, there is a transversal and complementary work package dedicated to the development of advanced technologies on current computing platforms, aiming to solve the computer science challenges derived from the application domains. Consequently, approaching real-world applications becomes a valuable method for validating and substantiating the applicability of novel and innovative techniques, transcending theoretical concepts to practical implementations.
Integrating new methods and their advancements into applications expedites optimization, yielding significantly improved results. Main objectives are the following:
Environment: This topic is directly related to challenge 3 Civil security for society, in particular to the challenges arising from persistent security threats, such as natural and man-made disasters. In the context of forest fires, there is a need for the development of capabilities and technologies tailored for first responders and emergency teams. These innovations encompass all aspects of disaster management, including prevention, preparation, response, and mitigation. Moreover, this WP is also related to Challenge 5 Climate, energy and mobility as it considers climate modelling models and tools to study the effects of climate change scenarios.
Life sciences: This topic is directly related to challenge 1 Health since it revolves around the tools that will drive the health systems to a personalized health. It is also related to Challenge 6 Bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment given that biodiversity aspects are treated using sequencing techniques and bioinformatics methods.
Advanced computing technologies: This topic is related to challenge 4 Digital Worlds, industry and space. Information and communication technologies (ICT) applied to HPC, distributed and heterogeneous systems and Big Data processing have a transversal character that provide technologies and services and make them useful for many scientific challenges. In particular, the advancement of cutting-edge technologies on existing computing platforms aims to facilitate data exchange and interoperability, automate data analysis, and optimize application performance across both domains.
