The lab is located within the Teratec science and technology park which has brought together more than 80 technological and industrial companies, laboratories and research centers, universities, and engineering schools. Through Teratec, these organizations are combining their resources for simulation and high performance computing to address specific and very challenging problems for various industries.

The Teratec members understand that rapid population growth over the coming decades will stress the infrastructure of cities, further tax sources of sustainable food and water resources, and pose new barriers to high-quality health-care. But they aren’t stopping at the problems—they are focused on finding solutions.

Consortium members see opportunities to use big data analysis and high-performance computing (HPC) systems to unlock new insights that will help us all understand how to create more sustainable cities and resources, as well as improve health-care.

For the new big data lab, Intel is contributing servers powered by Intel compute, networking, and storage architecture, data analytics software from Intel and other companies thetr collaborate with, and the expertise of their data scientists to help accelerate the consortium’s work.