“Tirant” is one of the top 500 most powerful computers in the world and the seventh largest integrated into the Spanish Supercomputing network. The super computer has the scientific power equivalent of 512 conventional computers. Although its size is not spectacular, the calculations it can perform are immense and now researchers have a tool to work on finding solutions to problems that are impossible calculate with an ordinary computer. The Tirant is installed on the campus of Burjassot, where IDAL is also located, and will be used for the study of proteins, drug design; DNA; climate change and more. General secretary of Science and Technology, Francis Marcellán, explained that the capability of the computer not only offers benefits to the world of science, “but is an investment in society.” The supercomputer installed at the University of Valencia cost 1.2 billion euros.
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On Feb. 15th Prof. Paulo Lisboa, from Liverpool John Moores University, gave a talk at the conference room of Faculty of Pharmacy in University of Valencia, invited by IDAL members under the Master on Ecology in the aforementioned university. The subject of the talk was Knowledge Discovery. Data are often collected or a specific purpose, for instance classification. However a full understanding of the data set requires more than just a benchmark of classifiers. The talk introduced data from an observational longitudinal cohort study to explain how to define risk stratification for time-to-event data, coninuing with automatic rule generation to explain the strata and ending with an integrated interface that adds also a domain-specific visualization of the complete database. Knowledge discovery is applicable to many different fields, as it hans bee shown in the talk. Among other case studies, the prediction of the ecological status of human-altered streams and its rule-based interpretation was introduced.