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CeDInt new headquarters and CeSVima Opening

Two centers located at the forefront of research in automation engineering and optics, ambient intelligence, as well as supporting interactive visualization and supercomputing.

The Minister for Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, and the rector of the Technical University of Madrid Javier Uceda, inaugurated this building, located in the Science and Technology Park of the Technical University of Madrid, in Montegancedo headquarters, which takes in the Center R & D for Integrated Home Automation (CeDInt) and the Center for support Supercomputing and Visualization of Madrid (CeSViMa).

At the opening of these facilities were accompanied by Jordi Casamitjana, chairman of T-Systems Iberia and Juan Antonio Zufiria, chairman of IBM Spain, next to Asuncion Santamaria, director of CeDint and Pedro Gómez Vilda, director of CeSViMa.

The CeDInt houses the first Virtual Reality Cave of Five Faces in Europe, boosted by the UPM and T-Systems, and CeSViMa develops Cajal Blue Brain project, led by UPM and the CSIC. This building is a multidisciplinary space that promotes research activities of the University, as well as knowledge transfer in an environment of collaboration with other public and private organizations. The total facilities investment is up to over twenty million euros, most of them financed through various calls of MICINN.

Integral Building Technology Center (CeDInt)

Researchers and experts work together in different areas of telecommunications, engineering and computer science. It provides technology solutions to companies resulting from the R&D, for industrial and commercial exploitation. His main research lines are directed toward optical engineering, automation engineering and virtual reality.

In the first case, the activity focuses on the development of optical systems for lighting, projection, solar energy and wireless optical communications (LEDs). In the field of automation engineering, researchers, experts in Ambient Intelligence, work on the design of automatic systems for the optimization of energy saving in buildings, while maintaining comfort conditions. There is also an important research activity of high security systems, based mainly on recognition of iris patterns, and others based on fingerprint and face.

The research projects of virtual reality include the development of 3D visualization system for automation engineering applications, smart solutions for people with disabilities and applications for driving safety.

In these facilities, the first virtual reality cave with five faces in Europe is located, boosted by T-Systems and UPM, to offer virtual reality to public institutions and small, medium and large enterprises. This is the first "Cave" with five faces in Spain and Europe, which allows users develop virtual reality programs more comprehensive and cutting-edge, such as a valve of a car, its complete design, or an entire new condominium. Among other projects, the center develops the Skull Project, which includes the design and implementation of software solutions for the reconstruction of faces based on their skeletal remains.

Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid (CeSViMa)

Additionally, the CeSViMa is the node of the Spanish Supercomputing Network in the Community of Madrid. Its infrastructure, considering the IBM supercomputer Magerit in close collaboration with the Barcelona Super Computing Center, offers a large computational power to researchers in Spain.

Magerit is a replica of the computer architecture of the National Center for Supercomputing MareNostrum (approximately a quarter of its capacity calculation) and works with direct access to their computing capabilities and mass storage resources of the Center for Energy and Environmental Technology (CIEMAT), in which IBM collaborates. The IBM supercomputer has a computing power of 15.95 teraflops and a storage system of 192 terabytes (TB).

His research activities with research groups from the UPM focus on the generation of specialized software for supercomputing and visualization exploitation in various fields of engineering, energy and environment. Additionally, its use is distributed to researchers who submit their proposals to the Spanish Supercomputing Network.

One of its applications is the Cajal Blue Brain project. Spanish participation, led by the Technical Universiy of Madrid (UPM) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), integrates into the international project Blue Brain, the first comprehensive attempt of mammalian brain reverse engineering aimed to learn its operation and dysfunctions. The project will help researchers explore solutions to mental health problems and currently untreatable neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's, in addition to providing new information on brain function.