Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia Launches Brazil's First Data Center for Health and Administrative Data Integration
Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia has inaugurated Brazil's first data center for integrating health and administrative data, enhancing research capabilities on social inequalities and health impacts. Located at the Bahia Technology Park, the facility boasts advanced technology, including 2,600 virtual CPUs and 2.5 petabytes of storage, and is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This initiative aims to improve the efficiency of processing large data sets for new research projects.
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The Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia) is inaugurating Brazil's first data center dedicated to integrating health and administrative data. The ceremony takes place on June 9 at the Tecnocentro building in the Bahia Technology Park.
The data center, located in a container adjacent to Cidacs, will enhance the efficiency of processing large social and health data sets, increasing the center's capacity for new research projects. It features secure data systems, analysis environments, and administrative areas, along with telecommunications and power generation systems.
The center will provide approximately 2,600 virtual CPUs and 240,000 GPU cores, with 24 terabytes of memory and 2.5 petabytes of storage. This initiative is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and aims to improve research on social inequalities and health impacts in Brazil.
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