The European Commission today announced the winners of a multi-billion euro competition of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET). The winning Graphene and Human Brain initiatives are set to receive one billion euros each, to deliver 10 years of world-beating science at the crossroads of science and technology. Each initiative involves researchers from at least 15 EU Member States and nearly 200 research institutes.
Cineca is a partner of the "Human Brain Project", coordinated by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne. HBP will create the world's largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed model of the brain, for studying how the human brain works and ultimately to develop personalised treatment of neurological and related diseases. This research lays the scientific and .
Cineca will contribute to the realisation of the HBP HPC platform, providing one of the four advanced supercomputing systems planned: the HBP supercomputer for massive data analytics. The aim of the CINECA task is to implement and operate a data-centric HPC facility providing efficient storage, processing and management of large volumes of data generated by the HBP. The task will begin by collecting and analysing HBP requirements, installing software tools and providing service based on ad hoc service policies. It will then go on to finalise the specification for the data analytics platform to be developed in the second phase of the project.
