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Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Location
Barcelona, Spain
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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] As of November 2022, it dropped to 88th.[3] It is expected to host one of Europe's first quantum computers.[4]

Location and management

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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 and Innovation (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

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center had an initial operational budget of €5.5 million/year (about US$7 million/year) to cover the period of 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.[5]

The Center has contributed to the development of the IBM cell microprocessor architecture.[6]

Staff

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  • Director: Mateo Valero[7]
  • Associate director: Josep Maria Martorell[citation needed]
  • Computer Sciences director: Jesús Labarta[8]
  • Computer Sciences associate director: Eduard Ayguadé[9]
  • Life Sciences director: Alfonso Valencia
  • Earth Sciences director:[10]
  • Computer Applications for Science and Engineering director: José María Cela[11]
  • Operations director: Sergi Girona[citation needed]
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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

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  8. ^ "Jesús Labarta". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
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  11. ^ "José María Cela". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
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