BSC to work with ESA on the use of artificial intelligence in space

BSC will provide its emerging technologies and HPC infrastructure for conducting the activities of this project. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will investigate the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for generating and augmenting synthetic datasets for remote sensing applications in space domain. BSC together with its Italian partners AIKO S.r.l and the National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate are the members of the consortium of the DeepLIM project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) The Computer Architecture and Operating System (CAOS) group is in charge of this project at BSC and will provide the centre's emerging technologies and HPC infrastructure including POWER9 processors and NVIDIA V100 GPUs for conducting the activities of this project. Training deep learning models, due to the nature of the problem, is very computation-intensive. As a consequence, deep learning workloads have been shown to be an excellent fit for accelerators such as GPUs included in the MareNostrum P9 Cluster of Emerging Technologies.