Keynote Speaker: Josep Lluís Berral 

Title: "On the use of Data Analytics as principal workloads in supercomputing research centres"

Abstract: "Nowadays most kinds of research fields require large amounts of data processing and exploring. For this, the use of supercomputers and large-scale ICT infrastructures is allowing the advance of medicine, earth sciences, and engineering fields, thanks to the possibility of parallelizing data analysis, data processing also AI-based processes. Supercomputing research centres, like the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), focus their activity on enabling and enhancing such processes, providing to researchers not only ICT infrastructures but also expertise on methods and procedures towards scaling data analysis. In this keynote, we're going to visit different examples of research in the centre related to life sciences, earth sciences and computer sciences, leveraging the supercomputing infrastructures for massive analytics experiments."

Short Bio: "Josep Lluís Berral received his Engineering degree in Informatics (2007), M.Sc. in Computer Architecture (2008), and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2013) at BarcelonaTech-UPC. He works in high-performance data-analytics and machine learning on cloud environments at the Department of Computer Architecture @ Barcelona-Tech (DAC-UPC) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He is the manager of the “Computing Resources Orchestration and Management for AI” group (UPC + BSC). He is currently collaborating in European projects and private projects with Intel and IBM, and previously with Databricks, Microsoft, Cisco and Petrobras. He did research at the “High-Performance Computing” group and at the “Relational Algorithms, Complexity and Learning” group at UPC. He has also been at the DarkLab group at Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) in 2012, also in IBM Watson Labs (Yorktown, NY) in 2019. He was awarded with a Juan de la Cierva research fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy in 2016, and the I3 distinction from the Spanish Ministry of Universities in 2023. He is an IEEE and ACM member."