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PIC Scientific Information Port (Port d’Informació Científica)

A high-performance computing service is offered for the management and analysis of large volumes of scientific data, with the support of a team of scientific-technical professionals specialized in the development, integration and operation of systems dedicated to this purpose. The Scientific Information Port (PIC) is a data processing center operated through a collaboration agreement between the research centers IFAE (Institute of High Energy Physics) and CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) which is located on the UAB campus. Since 2003, it has participated as a first-level center in the computing network of the particle physics experiments of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the largest distributed scientific data processing system in the world. It also participates in other major international experiments such as the MAGIC telescopes, the ESA Euclid satellite, the VIRGO and LIGO gravitational wave detectors or the DUNE neutrino detector. Through participation in these projects, the PIC has acquired valuable operational experience while creating a multidisciplinary team. This allows it not only to provide technological services to research, but also to integrate into the teams that conceptualize and design new experiments, as well as into the scientific teams that analyze the data. One of the objectives of the PIC is to collaborate with researchers from different scientific disciplines who have to analyze large volumes of complex data, to help them implement methodologies that allow them to accelerate analysis, guarantee reproducibility and facilitate collaboration.

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Shielded room

We have a screened room of 30 m2 with capacity to make large instrument pots in an environment of low electronic noise

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Mechanical workshop

The mechanical workshop has three qualified technicians and accustomed to working with the specific requirements to develop scientific instruments. At present, in addition to the tasks of the IFAE groups, they are carrying out mass production for the CERN ATLAS experiment.

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Clean room

White Room for Detector / Chip Packaging The IFAE's chip packaging room allows all the necessary operations to be carried out to produce detectors and to attach them to the necessary reading chips or electronic boards. The clean room is made up of three areas with different qualities: two of about 12 m2 of class 1000 and 10000, respectively, and another of about 20 m2 of class 100000. Laboratory to test newly constructed instruments before sending them to experimental sites (CERN, ORM, JPARC, CTIO, EGO, etc.)