• Florida International University
• Florida Atlantic University
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2008, 2009)
• IBM Almaden Research Center
• IBM China Research Lab (2008, 2009)
• IBM India Research Lab (2008, 2009)
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• IBM Tokyo Research Lab (planned)
• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (planned)
• Tsinghua University (2008, 2009)
• Universidade Federal Fluminense
• Universidad de Guadalajara (2008, 2009)
• Universidad Nacional de La Plata (2008)
• Universitat Politènica de Catalunya (2008, 2009)
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra (planned)
• University de Rennes 1 (2009)

In 2004, the Spanish Government's Ministry of Education and Science, the local Catalan Government, and the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) created the Barcelona Supercomputing Center –– Centro Nacional de Supercomputacin (BSC–CNS). BSC–CNS manages MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, located at the Torre Girona chapel. The mission of BSC-CNS is to investigate, develop and manage information technology in order to facilitate scientific progress. With this aim, special dedication has been taken to areas such as Computational Sciences, Life Sciences, and Earth Sciences. Due to the large demand of scientific projects, MareNostrum's capacity was increased to 94.21 Teraflops in 2006. It now has 10,240 PowerPC processors in a BladeCenter architecture, uses Linux and Myrinet interconnection technology, and has 20 TB of main memory and 370 TB of disk storage. Many of those from BPC who are working with us are also faculty members at UPC.

Chapel Torre Girona	Installation of MareNostrum
Ronald Halbe

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.bsc.es/index.php

The IBM China Research Laboratory (CRL) was established in September 1995 and is one of the eight worldwide IBM Research laboratories. Located in Zhongguancun Software Park at Shangdi District, in the northwest of Beijing, CRL has been growing steadily and currently employs over 150 technical staff members.

Outside the China Research Lab	Demo Center
Conference Room	Working Section

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.research.ibm.com/beijing/

The Information Visualization and Analysis Team at IBM China Research Lab, is a research group, working on the Information visualization and analysis research areas. In particular, we use the information visualization and visual analytics techniques to enalbe efficient and effective visual communication and discovery, thus allow the user to well observe and understand huge amount of information for quick information finding, pattern discovery, and decision making.

Our mission is to build information visualization and data analysis technologies to impact on the academic research and create business values for IBM products and customers. Our current working focuses include, to develop a general framework, Peony, to support easy creation and composition of data-driven visual components; design novel visualization components; design various visual analytics application for visually analyzing dynamic social networks, time series data, tree and graph data, and some complex information such as OLAP data.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of our mission, IMI is made up of researchers from multiple research disciplines. In particular, our strength lies in the following areas: information visualization framework, visualization algorithm design, visualization application design, intelligent visual user interfaces, social network analysis, machine learning and data mining. In addition to the close intra-departmental collaboration, we have also established collaboration ties with researchers inside and outside of IBM research.

The IBM India Research Laboratory (IRL) was established in April 1998 in New Delhi as the eighth of IBM's research labs. The lab expanded to its second site, Bangalore, in August 2005. IRL has a world–class team of researchers who have been recognized for their thought leadership and have developed innovations that help differentiate IBM both in the region and globally.

Outside the India Research Lab	Library
Conference room	Speech Technology Demo

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The Tokyo Research Laboratory (TRL) opened its doors in 1982 as the Japan Science Institute (JSI) in Sanbancho, Tokyo. In 1993 TRL moved to Yamato, Kanagawa. As IBM's first research laboratory in Asia, TRL is a member of IBM's global research community of 3,000 people at locations including Yorktown Heights, San Jose, and Austin in the United States, and in Switzerland, Israel, China, India, and Japan. At present, some 200 researchers in TRL play important roles in meeting the challenge of contributing positively to society and IBM's success through research.

Outside the Yamato Laboratory	Library
Boardroom	Researcher's Cubic

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http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/extfnt_e.htm

The Tecnológico de Monterrey (Tec de Monterrey) is considered one of the largest University systems in Latin America. It was founded in 1943 in the Northern City of Monterrey, Mexico. As the largest Private University system in Mexico, Tec encompasses 33 campuses, 42 High Schools in 37 Cities offering high quality research and educational programs. It offers 37 University Degrees, 53 Master Programs and 10 Doctoral Programs. At the end of the academic year 2005-2006 there were 95,777 students registered in Tec de Monterrey with 59% attending University courses, 30% High School and 11% Post-Graduate Studies.

CEDETEC en el Campus Estado de Mexico
FIU, IBM and ITSEM representatives at Santa Fe Campus	Facilities tour

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.itesm.edu/wps/portal

Founded in 1911, Tsinghua University is one of the most prestigious universities in China. It offers over 60 undergraduate programs and has more than 13,000 undergraduate students. The University currently enrolls nearly 18,000 graduate students. In recent years, the university has established relations with many world-famous universities including those involved in this PIRE project. It has opened its doors to foreign students and teachers from around the globe. Currently, there are about 3,000 students from nearly 100 countries.

Future Internet Technology Research Center	Laboratory
Library	The School of Science

Here is a link to Tsinghua University Brochure

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn

The Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) is one of four federally funded universities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. UFF was founded in 1960 and currently has approximately 21,600 undergraduate students and 2,700 graduate students. The computer science undergraduate course received the highest qualifications given by the Brazilian ministery of education and the graduate program is ranked as one of the top 10 of the Brazilian computer science programs, also by the ministery of education. The Institute of Computing (IC) was created within the Technology Center in December 1998. The IC is the result of combining faculty from the Department of Computer Science, the Institute of Mathematics, and various departments from the School of Engineering.

The IC has a single department, the Department of Computer Science (DCC). Currently, DCC has 40 teachers in their permanent framework, with 27 doctors and 11 masters, of which 4 are in doctorate. The DCC currently serves approximately 2,000 students in its various academic activities. Areas of study in the DCC include a Computer Science program for Masters and PhD students, Computer Technology, Computer Management and studies in Internet and Multimedia.

Front of Vista	Gragoata

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.ic.uff.br/index.php

The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) is a public university based in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Founded in 1792, it is the second oldest university in Mexico and the fourth oldest in North America. It is considered one of the best universities in Mexico. The Information Systems Department is located in the University Centre of Economic and Managerial Sciences (Spanish: Centro Universitario de Ciencias Econmico–Administrativas) often abbreviated as CUCEA is the division of the University of Guadalajara where higher education related to Economics, Management and complementary sciences in the relevant fields is provided. The centre has 19 buildings, 169 classrooms for regular lessons, 16 classrooms for PhD programmes and 4 fully-equipped auditoriums.

Library	Rectoria
Patio	Old University of Guadalajara

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.udg.mx/

The University is formed in 1897, has over 90,000 students, 17 colleges, over 153 undergraduate programs, and over 145 graduate programs. It is the second largest university in Argentina in terms of scientific research and development. The UNLP College of Informatics (“Facultad Informatica”) was created in 1999, it offers two undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science and Software Engineering, and has three research groups. It comprises of 250 professors and teaching assistants. Graduate programs are offered in the following areas:

• Software Engineering
• Data Networks
• Information Technologies applied in Education
• High Performance Computing and Grid Technology

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.unlp.edu.ar/

The Technical University of Catalunya is a public university that specializes in the fields of architecture, engineering, merchant seamanship, economics, health sciences and applied mathematics. UPC is almost as old as FIU and was founded in March 1971. UPC was at first made up of the Schools of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona and Terrassa, the School of Architecture of Barcelona and a number of research institutes. The first true antecedent of UPC was with the foundation of the Higher Technical Institute (Institut Politcnic Superior) in 1968. This Institute grouped together the state technical schools already in existence in Barcelona. These schools had a great tradition and their origin can be traced back in some cases to the mid-19th century. UPC has 16 schools, 41 departments, 3 university research institutes, 4 associate schools, 3 consortial associate schools, 27,510 students (first- and second-cycle in UPC schools), 4,387 students in associated schools, 2,657 lecturers, and 1,363 administrative and service staff. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center resides on the UPC campus.

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The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) is a public university in Barcelona, Catalonia. The university has 8,500 students and 1,008 lecturers. Out of the 8,500 students, 1,200 study Law, 900 study Business Sciencies, 820 study Business Management and Administration and 770 study Economics. The university is ranked first nationally in the disciplines of Business, Political Science, Economics, and Law, among others. Despite its relatively small size and its foundation less than two decades ago, the institution is the third highest-ranked university in Spain.

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The University of Rennes 1 has been in existence since 1969, but its heritage stems back to the days of the Breton university founded in 1461. In Rennes, the University is split into three major campuses with all facilities. It also has several departments outside of Rennes, in Brittany. The University currently welcomes about 22,000 students (including about 2,000 from abroad), plus more than 2,000 in continuing education, all surrounded by 1,600 teachers and full-time researchers and about 950 administrative and technical staff.

The campus of Beaulieu	The Computer Science lab
The city of Rennes	The library

For more information please visit our partner's website at http://www.univ-rennes1.fr/english/