Institutional visit to the Data Processing Centre (CPD) of the Information Systems Service

  • Office of the Principal
  • February 5th, 2019
 
CPD

The Principal of the Universitat de València, Mª Vicenta Mestre, together with the Valencian leader of the Treasury and Economic Model Department, Vicent Soler; the Vice-principal of Economy and Infrastructures, Juan Luis Gandia; and the director of the Information Systems Service of Universitat de València (SIUV), Fuensanta Domènech visited the CPD of the Burjassot Campus.

In her words, the Principal Mª Vicenta Mestre affirmed that ‘the installations of CPD are a perfect example of the university orientation to innovation, but they are also a service to the society as we are a public university.’  Mestre also showed her gratitude to ‘the Information Systems Service, to the qualified Vice-principals in infrastructures and software, to every service which has made possible the availability of these installations.’

The regional leader Vicent Soler  underlined ‘The implication of the Generalitat, the regional government, when it refers to keeping the collaborations with the university in order to unite synergies, so we can be more efficient.  In addition, he highlighted that ‘we have reinforced the Valencian Innovation Agency, because, from the regional government, we must be a revulsive for the Valencian economy, since the future challenges have both human and technological capital.’

When it was her turn, the director of the Information Systems Service, Fuensanta Domènech, described the trajectory of the CPD and the supercomputers which are in the centre reminding that, from the Information Systems Service ‘they are working to help in researching projects and in university teaching through the so-called new technologies’. Thus, the improvement and the update of such technologies ‘must be continuous and constant.’

Finally, the Vice-principal Juan Luis Gandia recalled that the installations of CPD date back two years ago and they were born with two aims: improving the working conditions with more room and adapting the new technologies to integrate the whole supercomputer systems.

The Data Processing Centre was inaugurated in 2018 and was designed to support the teams destined to scientific estimations.  There, a specially reinforced access floor, new high-power suppliers and refrigerating systems based on the use of posterior refrigerated doors were installed.  Thanks to the unification of both CPDs that the SIUV administrated in Burjassot, a better resource management and control is achieved. The CPD has two supercomputers, LluísVives v2 and Tirant v3.

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