PIC description

Introduction

The Port d’Informació Científica (PIC) is a scientific-technological data centre and research infrastructure located on the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain. It is operated through a collaboration agreement between the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT). PIC specialises in the storage, processing and analysis of large scientific datasets and provides advanced computing and data services to the national and international research community. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

PIC is part of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES), a distributed Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS), and offers high-performance computing resources, data management services, and support for multidisciplinary scientific projects. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

PIC plays a key role in data-intensive scientific endeavours including:

• Serving as a Tier-1 data centre for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), supporting data processing for the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
• Hosting the main data centres for the MAGIC gamma-ray telescopes and the PAU Survey instruments. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}
• Operating as one of the data centres for the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission and as a scientific data centre in the mission’s Science Ground Segment. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}
• Providing tools and platforms for data exploration and analysis such as CosmoHub, which enables interactive access to large cosmological and astrophysical datasets. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}

With a team of scientists, engineers and computing experts, PIC’s mission is to accelerate research by enabling effective data-oriented workflows, from interactive development to large-scale production computing and analysis. :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}