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| NEWSLETTER July 2021 |
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Climate change can bring more rainfall to Europe
Rainfall in Europe during the winter season could increase by around 20% in the next 30 years if greenhouse gases continue to be emitted at the current level. This is the conclusion of a new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, led by BSC’s researchers together with researchers from the Met Offic. The research, based on new high-resolution climate models with a higher degree of realism than traditional ones, could change the current understanding of how climate can change over Europe and the North Atlantic.
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BSC researchers to apply supercomputing techniques to reduce blockchain energy consumption
BSC collaborates with the Ethereum foundation and the European project Ontochain to launch, in 2022, a new blockchain system. The new system will expand the scalability of this technology by increasing the number of transactions per second more than 1,000 times and reduce its energy consumption up to 500 times. Kumo crawler, created by Leonardo Bautista and his team, monitors the blockchain network to measure the reliability of the new 2.0 protocol.
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BSC to participate in two projects for environment-friendly textiles, cosmetics and detergents
FuturEnzyms and Oxipro projects aim to promote the development of enzymes for the manufacture of greener daily consumer products. Both activities have a total funding of almost 12 million euros and will be carried out with leading academic and industrial partners. BSC has a key role in the bioprospecting and engineering of enzymes, through the development and application of new computational tools.
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BSC releases COMPSs version 2.9
This COMPSs release includes support for nested tasks, including recursive nested tasks. This feature enhances the programmability of applications that naturally have a hierarchical structure. It also helps on mapping large tasks into nodes and smaller tasks in resources inside the nodes, which enables a better locality exploitation. The Python binding comes with a new Python workers cache, which overcomes one of the largest overheads for Python applications, which had to serialize the tasks' parameters into files.
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BSC releases OmpSs-2 version 2021.06
The Programming Models group at BSC has published a new release (version 2021.06) of the OmpSs-2 programming model. We have extended the OmpSs-2 programming model and runtime system to support NUMA systems. We have also enhanced the taskloop construct to support data dependencies, and the CTF tracing systems now support MPI applications. In addition, the CPU manager has a new hybrid policy. Finally, this release also includes several performance enhancements and bug fixes.
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BSC researcher Rosa M. Badia receives the HPDC Achievement Award 2021
Rosa M. Badia, the BSC Workflows and distributed computing group manager and coordinator of the eFlows4HPC project, has received the HPDC Achievement Award 2021 for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community. She is the first researcher to carry out her work in Europe recognized by this award.
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BSC renews the Human Resources Excellence in Research Award
BSC has renewed the HR Excellence in Research Award with which the European Commission recognises the BSC commitment to the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. BSC makes this commitment effective through its HR Strategy for Researchers aimed to provide the best framework and environment for research excellence.
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