The Barcelona Supercomputing Center ( es, Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is a public research center located in

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. It hosts MareNostrum, a 13.7

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-based supercomputer, 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

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Location and management

The Center is located in a former

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named ''Torre Girona'', at the

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(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

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(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

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of €5.5 million/year (about

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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

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's 2017 science fiction mystery thriller novel ''

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External links

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
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