Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center 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., it ranked 13th in the world.
The Center is located in a former chapel named Torre Girona, at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and was established on April 1, 2005. It is managed by a consortium composed of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Government of Catalonia and the UPC. Professor Mateo Valero is its main administrator. The MareNostrum supercomputer is contained inside an enormous glass box in a former chapel.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial operational budget of €5.5 million/year 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.
The Center has contributed to the development of the IBM cell microprocessor architecture.Staff
- Director: Mateo Valero
- Associate director: Josep Maria Martorell
- Computer Sciences director: Jesús Labarta
- Computer Sciences associate director: Eduard Ayguadé
- Life Sciences director: Alfonso Valencia
- Earth Sciences director:
- Computer Applications for Science and Engineering director: José María Cela
- Operations director: Sergi Girona
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center appears in Dan Brown's 2017 science fiction mystery thriller novel Origin, as the home of the E-Wave device.
