11:00h – 11:10h X4HPC Network: Boosting the R&D Supercomputing Ecosystem, by Maria Rosés, X4HPC Manager, Innovation and Business Development, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
The X4HPC R+D+I Network is a network coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).
Formed by the most representative scientific institutions and research centers in Catalonia in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and its different scientific applications in a myriad of relevant fields. The X4HPC Network’s mission is to accelerate the valorization and technology transfer of scientific projects that use Supercomputing tools, supporting disruptive technologies that generate a positive social and economic impact and fostering entrepreneurship and the creation of Spinoffs. As well as promoting the interaction between research and Industry (through open innovation initiatives). With the vision of turning the X4HPC into an innovation pool in HPC technologies at an international level.
This Network is currently composed of more than 400 researchers from 41 research groups and 8 different institutions (UB, UAB, VHIR, IRB, IJC, CNM-CSIC and CIMNE).
X4HPC Pitches
– 11:10-11:20h SimTwins spinoff, by Riccardo Rossi from CIMNE (Digital Twins, AI)
www.simtwins.net
SimTwins builds high-fidelity real-time Digital Twin solutions powered by Physics-AI. This approach combines physics-based simulations and data-driven machine learning to provide faster, more efficient insights for industrial applications. Our technology accelerates complex simulations, making them accessible for real-time decision-making in manufacturing, energy, and transportation, helping companies boost performance, reduce costs, and increase reliability.
Target sectors: Manufacturing, Aerospace/Automotive, Construction, Engineering
Field: Digital Twins, AI, HPC
– 11:20-11:30h SoftOmics spinoff, by Hrant Hovhannisyan, from IRB-BSC (Genome sequencing)
SoftOmics is an emerging Spin-off from BSC, IRB and ICREA. Its mission is optimization of pharma, biotech and life science industries using the power of software and bioinformatics. SamPlexer, the first product of SoftOmics, is a pioneering software platform for NGS library preparation multiplexing. SamPlexer significantly reduces the cost and time associated with NGS library preparation, a critical operational and financial bottleneck for sequencing. This innovative platform makes sequencing cheaper, faster, and more sustainable. By offering enhanced operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness, SamPlexer empowers genomics core facilities, hospitals, research labs, centers for infection control, and agricultural research organizations to maximize their sequencing output.
– 11:30-11:40h FlexiiC spinoff of IMB-CNM (CSIC), by Eloi Ramon, Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of FlexiiC
The spin-off FlexiiC aims to design system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for smart systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), with a mission to democratize and revolutionize the world of electronics through a groundbreaking organic and flexible technology that enables a new generation of sensors and logic circuits processed with functional inks at low temperatures on sustainable substrates.
Target sectors: Its business model focuses on developing flexible integrated circuits for disposable, short-lifetime smart monitoring systems, targeting medical and healthcare, smart packaging, and environmental applications
Field: organic microelectronics, flexible chips, sustainable electronic systems.
– 11:40.11:50h OSI4IOT Platform, by Daniel Di Capua, from CIMNE-UPC (AI)
OSI4IOT is a cutting-edge web-based IoT platform designed for real-time monitoring of industrial assets and structures. Businesses can leverage its Digital Twin Models (DTM) to gain an interactive 3D visualization that dynamically responds to live sensor data, enabling predictive maintenance, reducing operational costs, and improving efficiency. Additionally, the platform integrates Finite Element Method (FEM) results, providing deep analytical insights for optimizing asset performance.
Beyond industrial applications, OSI4IOT serves as a powerful educational tool for engineering universities, allowing students to explore real-world IoT applications, digital twins, and structural analysis in an interactive learning environment
Target sectors: Naval industries, energy companies and technical universities
Field: Digital Twins, IOT, AI
– 11:50.12:00h GID, by Abel Coll, from CIMNE (Digital Twins, AI)
The GiD Simulation Cloud Platform is a platform integrating all the needed tools for simulations in a cloud-based architecture, based on the universal pre and post-processor for numerical simulations GiD (www.gidsimulation.com). The platform integrates solutions for all the workflow involved in a simulation: definition of geometry, mesh generation, assignment of properties, results analysis and advanced visualization techniques, all of them integrated in a cloud environment, and allowing to be used from browser and light devices (tablets and smart phones).
The nature of the platform allows to integrate any kind of data to the simulation (such as sensors data, etc…), making it a great solution to deal with Digital Twins or AI systems working with simulation data.
– 12:00-12:10h QUETZAL, by Julián Pavón, from BSC (RISCV, Health)
Quetzal is a plug-and-play vector acceleration framework designed to drastically speed up genome sequence analysis while seamlessly integrating with existing computing infrastructures. By reducing genome sequence analysis processing time, Quetzal reduces computational costs and unlocks faster diagnostics, deeper insights, and large-scale research breakthroughs in precision medicine and drug discovery.
Compatible with leading sequencing platforms like Illumina and PacBio, Quetzal ensures broad applicability across genomic research environments, empowering organizations to accelerate innovation in personalized medicine and biotechnology.
Target sector: startups, industries and Genome research centers.
Field: RISCV, Health, Genomics.
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