The Barcelona Supercomputing Center ( es, Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, a 13.7 Petaflops,

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-based

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, which also includes clusters of emerging technologies. , it ranked 13th in the world. , it dropped to 88th. It is expected to host one of Europe's first quantum computers.

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

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composed of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (60%), the Government of Catalonia (30%) and the UPC (10%). Professor

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is its main

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. The MareNostrum supercomputer is contained inside an enormous glass box in a former chapel.

Budget

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center had an initial operational

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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. The Center has contributed to the development of the IBM cell microprocessor architecture. File:MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center 1 br.jpg, MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017) File:MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center 2 br.jpg, MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017)

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"José María Cela"
Barcelona Supercomputing Center. *Operations director: Sergi Girona

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.

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External links

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
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