Computation is a fundamental tool in scientific research. LIP develops new information technologies and operates advanced services for demanding scientific applications.
LIP participates in some of the largest European R&D projects in this field and operates the largest scientific computing facility in Portugal. The facility is part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and delivers computing and storage capacity to high energy physics experiments and to the research community in a large ensemble of scientific domains.
LIP leads the National Distributed Computing Infrastructure (INCD) and is part of the National Advanced Computing Network (RNCA), both in the Portuguese Science Foundation Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of strategic relevance. Scientific computing is certainly one of the areas placing LIP at the forefront of innovation.
LIP’s expertise in large scale computational tools and data science opens up opportunities for knowledge transfer and for addressing societal changes. The SPAC group has very much strengthened this domain and opened new research lines in disease forecasting, human behaviour and public policy.