Last Friday 9th February, fifty students from IES Villa de Mijas had the opportunity to visit the Bioinnovation Building of the Andalusia Technology Park (PTA), thanks to the Mijas Town Hall, whose Family and Equal Opportunities Department organised this activity with the aim of "fulfilling one of the objectives of axis two of the Strategic Plan for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men of the municipality, called Education for Equal Opportunities and Promotion of Egalitarian Values".

During their visit, students explored the different laboratories, guided by one of the technicians responsible for the Bioinformatics Unit of the Supercomputing and Bioinnovation Centre of the UMA who is also from Mijas, Rocío Bautista, as well as three other professionals, specialists in the field, who explained the importance of research in today's society. 

The Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES)-Picasso

The Supercomputing and Bioinnovation Center (SCBI) of the University of Malaga (UMA) houses the Picasso computer, which began its activities in February 1997, providing service to the scientific community since then.

In 2007, the UMA expanded the Supercomputing facilities with tools and experts in bioinformatics. The services offered by the SCBI of the UMA are: access to supercomputing resources (HPC), advice and support in the use of applications and scientific programming, courses for users, software adapted to the needs of researchers and specialised support for bioinformatics data analysis.

The distinguishing feature of Picasso is that it has seven shared-memory computers with 2 TB of RAM and 80 cores each, which makes solving problems that would be intractable with the classic cluster architecture possible. In addition, it is made up of 89 other computers, combining different technologies, so that each researcher can transparently use, through a queuing system, whichever is most convenient at any given time.

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