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IBERGRID 2024

IBERGRID 2024

The 13th Iberian GRID Conference will take place in Portugal, at the University of Porto, between October 28th and 30th. Registrations are now open!…

Meeting with SRCE 

Meeting with SRCE 

Five members from the University of Zagreb Computing Centre, Croatia (SRCE) visited FCCN in an exchange program that strengthens collaboration in supercomputing and authentication systems. The visit included presentations, experience sharing, and discussions on authentication and European identifiers, with the presence of representatives from the University of Lisbon….

New INCD Operational Center at UTAD

New INCD Operational Center at UTAD

The inauguration of the new INCD operational center at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in Vila Real took place on November 7th. The inauguration was part of the annual Meeting of the National Network for Advanced Computing (RNCA). The new operational center in Vila Real significantly increases the processing and storage resources made available by INCD to the scientific community through its nationwide infrastructure. INCD’s computing and data infrastructure has operational centers in Lisbon, Coimbra and now also in Vila Real with the support of UTAD and FCT. The inauguration of the operational center was attended by representatives from…

This year’s IBERGRID has come to an end

This year’s IBERGRID has come to an end

We have left Benasque! The five days of IBERGRID 23 have come to an end. The Pedro Pascual Science Center hosted the 12th edition of the conference that unites Portugal and Spain in the coordination of scientific applications, distributed computing infrastructures, cloud computing and data repositories….

RNCA attended Ciência 2023 summit

RNCA attended Ciência 2023 summit

The session of the National Network for Advanced Computing took place in the early afternoon of the last day of the portuguese Science summit. The latest updates of RNCA and some future projects were presented, such as the preparation of the MOOC about Supercomputing and the operationalization of the Deucalion supercomputer….

Why can’t we see quarks?

Why can’t we see quarks?

The lattice QCD research group at the University of Coimbra is performing realistic simulations using HPC to better understand the interaction and propagation of particles – quarks and gluons – that have never been observed directly….