Research and Innovation

Early in 2004 the Ministry of Education and Science (Spanish Government), Generalitat de Catalunya (local Catalan Government) and Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) took the initiative of creating a National Supercomputing Center in Barcelona. BSC-CNS (Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain and was officially constituted in April 2005. BSC-CNS manages MareNostrum, the most powerful supercomputer in Europe, located at the Torre Girona chapel. The mission of BSC-CNS is to investigate, develop and manage information technology in order to facilitate scientific progress. With this aim, special dedication has been taken to areas such as Computational Sciences, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.

All these activities are complementary to each other and very tightly related. In this way, a multidisciplinary loop is set up: our exposure to industrial and non-computer science academic practices improves our understanding of the needs and helps us focusing our basic research towards improving those practices. The result is very positive both for our research work as well as for improving the way we service our society.

More information at:  http://www.bsc.es

Research topics of the CRNE include

• Manipulation and dynamics study of nanoparticles for applications in electronics, communications and sensors.
• Mechanical, electrical and electronical properties of nanodevices, nanostructures and biological systems .
• Multiscale analysis of coupled processes: Complex system behaviour.
• Nanoscale analysis of surfaces and reactivity.
• Simulation and modelling of nanometric systems and nanostructured materials.
• Fabrication, characterization and applications of micro and nanometric layers.
• Nanometric scale fabrication and design of devices, circuits and systems.
• Nanometric devices integration in micro and mesoscopic systems.
• Energy applications of nanoparticles and nanostructures.
• Equipment design for obtaining, manipulate and characterise nanomaterials and nanostructures. 
  
  More information at:  http://www.upc.edu/crne/

The Virtual Reality Centre of Barcelona is the result of an agreement entered into between the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a company called Gedas to set up a centre of excellence in the field of virtual reality technologies.
The CRV is located in the Barcelona Technology Park and has state-of-the-art virtual reality facilities, including a CAVE-type immersive stereoscopic room, a presentations room with a stereoscopic screen, various virtual reality workbenches with stereoscopic displays and two laboratories devoted to operations, research and development.

The Biomedical Engineering Research Center (CREB) at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia, is a specialised research centre, wich was established to meet the demand for R&D in the biomedical engineering field.

CREB is staffed by a highly qualified research team with solid professional experience.

The main aim is to provide solutions for technological and training needs in the biomedical engineering industry.

CREB is capable to solving problems in the fields of science and technology, it acts as a specialised technology transfer and training centre linking the university to the industrial and health science sectors.

The idea of co-ordinating efforts, optimise resources and adopt a corporate image among the different research groups working in the Biomedical Engineering area in the UPC began to take shape in the early 90's and has developed steadily since.

More information at:  http://www.creb.upc.es/

 LOGISIM is a research and technology transfer center specialized in the
development of simulation and optimization models to improve logistic,
transportation, production and services processes. LOGISIM has lead more
than 30 industrial projects in the last ten years. Its members are also
actively involved in research projects and other scientific activities.


The objectives of LOGISIM are:

• Applying simulation and optimization techniques to improve logistic,
  production, transportation and service systems in the industrial and the
  administration sectors.
• Minimizing the risk of decision making by means of the analysis and
  experimental evaluations of models under different settings before their
  development into real systems.
• Designing decision support systems based on integrated simulation modelling
  and optimization tools to aid decision making.
  
  
  More information at: http://logisim.fib.upc.es/

School and its members participate in the following research groups:

• ALBCOM - Algorithms, Computational Biology, Complexity and Formal Methods
• ARCO - Microarchitecture and Compilers
• CAP - High Performance Computing Group
• CBA - Broadband Communications Systems
• CNDS - Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
• DCCG - Research group on discrete, combinatorial and computational geometry
• GESSI - Software Engineering for Information Systems research group
• GIE - Computer Science in Engineering
• GPLN - Natural Language Processing Group
• GREC - Knowledge Engineering Research Group
• GRINS - Intelligent Robots and Systems
• KEMLG - Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Group
• LARCA - Laboratory of Relational Algorithmics, Complexity and Learnability
• LIAM - Laboratory of Information Analysis and Modelling
• LOGPROG - Logic and Programming
• MOVING - Research Group on Modelling, Interaction and Visualization in Virtual Reality
• MPI - Information Modelling and Processing
• SAC - Advanced Control Systems
• SIMCON - Computer Simulation in Condensed Matter Research Group
• SOCO - Soft Computing
• STH - Sustainability, Technology and Humanism
• VIS - Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems

The Univerity does technology transfer to the society in exchange of all the inversions received.