Welcome to the Advanced Computing and e-Science group of the Physics Institute of Cantabria (IFCA)
We are a research group at IFCA focused on distributed computing, data science and artificial intelligence.
IFCA is a joint centre with the combined effort of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Cantabria (UC) in Santander, Spain. Our group was created in 2010 as a response to the growing scientific needs of powerful computing capacities and techniques. Since then, it has steadily expanded both its physical and human resources.
We offer “enhanced” Science (or e-Science) to researchers from several research institutes across different countries.
Our services enable scientists to interact through the network, sharing computing resources to support their larger needs for simulation, data storage and transfer, analysis, and collaborative work.
Our group is specialized in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cloud computing, Grid computing and High-Performance Computing (HPC).
Since our founding in 2010, we have taken part in numerous European science projects. Currently, we are leading the AI4EOSC and EOSC-SIESTA projects, both embedded within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
We are strongly committed to making Science accessible to the general public.
Our group actively contributes to open science initiatives, such as EOSC. Hence, our publications are free to access and our software development is based in free and open source software.
The computing services are certified to ISO/IEC 9001 (Quality Management System) and ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management System).
