Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Jardins de la Torre Girona.jpg
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Coordinates41°23′22″N 2°6′58″E / ���41.38944°N 2.11611°E / 41.38944; 2.11611Coordinates: 41°23′22″N 2°6′58″E / 41.38944°N 2.11611°E / 41.38944; 2.11611
Websitehttps://www.bsc.es/

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spanish: Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, a 13.7 Petaflops, Intel Xeon Platinum-based supercomputer, which also includes clusters of emerging technologies. In June 2017, it ranked 13th in the world.[1][2]

Location and management[]

The Center is located in a former chapel named Torre Girona, at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and was established on April 1, 2005. It is managed by a consortium composed of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (60%), the Government of Catalonia (30%) and the UPC (10%). Professor Mateo Valero is its main administrator. The MareNostrum supercomputer is contained inside an enormous glass box in a former chapel.

Budget[]

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial operational budget of €5.5 million/year (about US$7 million/yr) to cover the period 2005–2011. The center has had a very rapid growth and in 2018 had a workforce of around 600 workers and an annual global budget of more than 34 million euros.[3]

The Center has contributed to the development of the IBM cell microprocessor architecture.[4]

  • MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017)

  • MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017)

Staff[]

  • Director: Mateo Valero[5]
  • Associate director: Josep Maria Martorell[citation needed]
  • Computer Sciences director: Jesús Labarta[6]
  • Computer Sciences associate director: Eduard Ayguadé[7]
  • Life Sciences director: Alfonso Valencia
  • Earth Sciences director:[8]
  • Computer Applications for Science and Engineering director: José María Cela[9]
  • Operations director: Sergi Girona[citation needed]

In popular culture[]

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center appears in Dan Brown's 2017 science fiction mystery thriller novel Origin, as the home of the E-Wave device.

Notes[]

  1. ^ "MareNostrum 4 begins operation". Barcelona Supercomputing Center. 29 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Top500 List - Supercomputer Sites". www.top500.org.
  3. ^ "BSC-CNS in Numbers". www.bsc.es.
  4. ^ "Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC)". Bsc.es. Archived from the original on 2007-03-08. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
  5. ^ "Mateo Valero". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
  6. ^ "Jesús Labarta". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
  7. ^ "Eduard Ayguadé". Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
  8. ^ Doblas Reyes, Francisco Javier. "Doblas Reyes, Francisco Javier". Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
  9. ^ "José María Cela". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

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