The Supercomputing and Bioinnovation Center (SCBI) of the University of Malaga (UMA), which is located in the Technological Park of Andalusia, houses the computer Picasso that began its activities in February 1997, since then serving the scientific community.  

In 2007, the UMA supplemented the Supercomputing facilities with tools and experts in bioinformatics. The services offered by the UMA SCBI are: Access to Supercomputing (HPC) resources, - advice and support in the use of applications and scientific programming, courses for users, software adapted to the needs of researchers and specialized support for bioinformatics data analysis.  

Picasso’s differentiating fact is the availability of seven shared memory computers with 2 TB of RAM and 80 cores each, which allows to solve problems that with the classic cluster architecture would be intractable. In addition, it is made up of 89 more teams, combining different technologies, so that each researcher can use in a transparent way, through a queuing system, the one that suits him or her best at all times.  

Picasso offers 27% of its resources to the RES.