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The location of the new IMDEA Software building also
provides excellent access to the UPM School of Computer
Science as well as to the other research centers within
the Montegancedo Science and Technology Park. These
centers include the Madrid Center for Supercomputing and
Visualization (CESVIMA), the Center for Computational
Simulation, the UPM Montegancedo Campus company
“incubator” and technology transfer center (CAIT), the
Institute for Home Automation (CEDINT), the Institute for
Biotechnology and Plant Genomics (CBGP), the Center for
Biomedical Technology (CTB), the Microgravity Institute,
and the Spanish User Support and Operations Centre
for ISS payloads (USOC). In particular, the CESVIMA
houses the second largest supercomputer in Spain
and one of the largest in Europe, as well as a state-ofthe-art
visualization cave, and is equipped for massive
information storage and processing, high performance
computing, and advanced interactive visualization. The
Institute’s location also provides convenient access to the
other Madrid universities and IMDEAs.
The campus obtained the prestigious “International
Campus of Excellence” label, and is the only campus in
Spain to receive a “Campus of Excellence in Research
and Technology Transfer” award in the Information and
Communications Technologies area from the Spanish
government.
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