Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Topic: Organization
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| Location | Barcelona, Spain |
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| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 41°23′22″N 2°6′58″E / 41.38944°N 2.11611°E |
| Website | https://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. (As of 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
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
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]
MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017)
MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017)
Staff
- 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]
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
- ↑ "MareNostrum 4 begins operation" (in en). https://www.bsc.es/news/bsc-news/marenostrum-4-begins-operation.
- ↑ "Top500 List - Supercomputer Sites". https://www.top500.org/list/2017/06/.
- ↑ "TOP500 List - November 2022 | TOP500". https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2022/11/.
- ↑ Granger, Gemma Garrido (2021-10-30). "Barcelona will be southern Europe's first quantum computing hub" (in en). https://en.ara.cat/society/barcelona-will-be-southern-europe-s-first-quantum-computing-hub_1_4166573.html.
- ↑ "BSC-CNS in Numbers". https://www.bsc.es/discover-bsc/the-centre/bsc-cns-in-numbers.
- ↑ "Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC)". Bsc.es. Archived from the original on 2007-03-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20070308121821/http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
- ↑ "1. Summary" (in en). https://www.bsc.es/mateo-valero.
- ↑ "Jesús Labarta". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
- ↑ "Eduard Ayguade home page (Technical University of Catalonia - Barcelona)". https://personals.ac.upc.edu/eduard/.
- ↑ "ICREA". https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/francisco-javier-doblas-reyes-499.
- ↑ "José María Cela". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
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