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Mateo Valero Cortés is a Spanish computer architect. His research encompasses different concepts within the field of computer architecture, a discipline in which he has published more than 700 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books. Valero has received numerous awards, including the
Eckert–Mauchly Award The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. It is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and Joh ...
in 2007. he is the director of the
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, which hosts the
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supercomputer.


Early life and education

Mateo Valero Cortés is from
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,
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, Spain. At a young age he went to
Zaragoza Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...
and then
Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
to study, before settling permanently in
Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
. Valero graduated in
telecommunications engineering Telecommunications engineering is a subfield of electronics engineering which seeks to design and devise systems of communication at a distance. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments. A telecommunication eng ...
from the
Technical University of Madrid The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid (, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Arc ...
in 1974 and got his Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering from the
Polytechnic University of Catalonia The Polytechnic University of Catalonia (, , ; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest polytechnic university in Catalonia, Spain. UPC's objectives are based on internationalization, as it is one of Europe's techni ...
.


Career

Valero has combined his academic work with establishing and managing centres for high-performance computing research and technology transfer to businesses. * Between 1990 and 1995, he first established and then directed the Barcelona European Parallelism Centre (CEPBA, after its initials in Spanish) to carry out fundamental and applied research in parallel computing. * From 1995 to 2000, he was the director of C4, the Catalan Computing and Communications Centre, coordinating activities carried out by CEPBA and the Catalan Supercomputing Centre (CESCA, after its initials in Catalan). * From October 2000 until 2004, he was the director of CIRI, the CEPBA-
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Research Institute on parallel computers. * Since May 2004 he has been the founder and director of
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. , i ...
, and remains director. At these centres he has worked to drive forward different supercomputing networks both nationally and internationally, such as the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES, after its initials in Spanish), the
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe A partnership is an agreement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests. The partners in a partnership may be individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments or combinations. Organizations m ...
(PRACE) and the Latin American Supercomputing Network (RISC, after its initials in Spanish). In 2013 he won a
European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...
Advanced Grant to carry out the RoMoL project on new techniques to build multicore chips and the supercomputers of the future.


Recognition and honours


Individual awards

* 2024: Premio Innovación y Ciencia (Innovation and Science award) at the
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* 2020: AUTELSI 2020 annual award, organised by the Asociación Española de Usuarios de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (AUTELSI), which recognises excellence and contributions and commitment to information technology * 2019: Cénits Award for Research Excellence, given by Extremadura Center for Research, Technological Innovation and Supercomputing to commemorate its 10th anniversary * 2018: Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. This is the highest prize given by Mexican government to a non Mexican person. * 2017: MareNostrum 4, chosen as the most beautiful data centre in the world. The award, organised b
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has been granted by popular vote. * 2017: Charles Babbage Award (IEEE Computer Society), for "his contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building on incredibly productive European research environment" * 2017: Recognition for his outstanding career in scientific and technological development, given by the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and by the national committee of the ISUM international congress. * 2016:
Creu de Sant Jordi award The Creu de Sant Jordi (, in English 'St George's Cross') is one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia (Spain), surpassed only in protocol by the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It was established by the Generalit ...
(Catalan Government) * 2015: Seymour Cray Award (IEEE - Computer Society) for supercomputing "in recognition of seminal contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW (
Very Long Instruction Word Very long instruction word (VLIW) refers to instruction set architectures that are designed to exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP). A VLIW processor allows programs to explicitly specify instructions to execute in parallel, whereas conve ...
) architectures" * 2015: Innovative Businesses Forum Award in the Innovative Researcher category * 2014: Award of Honour (Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association) * 2013:
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(ACM) Distinguished Service Award "for extraordinary leadership of initiatives in high-performance computing research and education" * 2009: Goode Award (IEEE - Computer Society), for his contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW architectures * 2008: Featured in Hall of Fame (Innovate, Connect, Transform - ICT conference) * 2007:
Eckert–Mauchly Award The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. It is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and Joh ...
(IEEE/ACM;), for "extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering basic new approaches to
instruction-level parallelism Instruction-level parallelism (ILP) is the Parallel computing, parallel or simultaneous execution of a sequence of Instruction set, instructions in a computer program. More specifically, ILP refers to the average number of instructions run per st ...
" (the highest international honour in the field of computer architecture) * 2006: National Research Award for contributions to scientific and technological progress in Catalonia (Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation * 2006: Leonardo Torres Quevedo Spanish National Research Award for engineering research (Spanish Ministry for Education and Science) * 2005: Research Achievements Career Award (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) * 2005: Aritmel National Award –Spanish IT Engineer (Spanish Scientific and IT Society) * 2004: Engineer of the Year Award (Spanish Telecommunication Engineers Association) * 2001: Julio Rey Pastor Spanish National Research Award in Mathematics, Information and Communication Technology (Spanish Ministry for Education and Science) * 1997: Rey Jaime I Award for fundamental research (Rey Jaime I Awards Foundation) * 1996: Salvà i Campillo Award (Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association) * 1994: Narcís Monturiol Award (
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)


Joint awards

* 2011: First national award for partnership between research centres and businesses, awarded to BSC and IBM for their long and fruitful research collaboration (Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation). * 2011 and 2015: Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Award given to Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) * 1994: Barcelona City Award in Technology for the work of CEPBA (Barcelona City Council) * 1992: Fundación Universidad-Empresa Award for the university department with the best European research projects (Fundación Universidad-Empresa)


Other recognition

Valero is a founding fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, fellow of the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts, fellow of
Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...
and corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Pure Sciences, Physics and Natural Sciences and of the Mexican Academy of Science. In 2018 he was elected correspondent academic of the Academia de Ingeniería de México, honorary fellow of the Real Academia Europea de Doctores and fellow of the Academia de Gastronomía de Murcia. He has been awarded
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s by
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, the
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, the
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, also known as the ULPGC (''Spanish'' Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish public university located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital city of Gran Canaria island. It is t ...
, the University of Veracruz, the
University of Zaragoza The University of Zaragoza, sometimes referred to as Saragossa University () is a public university with teaching campuses and research centres spread over the three provinces of Aragon (Spain). Founded in 1542, it is one of the List of oldest u ...
, the
Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
, the
University of Cantabria The University of Cantabria (UC) () is a public university located in Santander, Torrelavega and Comillas in Cantabria, Spain. It was founded in 1972 and comprises 15 schools and colleges. It was selected as Campus of International Ex ...
and the
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. He is also a fellow of the IEEE and ACM and an Intel Distinguished Fellow. He is a member of the external Scientific Advisory Committee of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and benefactor of the graduation of the 2018 promotion from Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza. As of 2017 he was a member of the committee for the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award. Valero maintains strong links with his home town, Alfamén, which has bestowed a variety of honours upon him. In 1998 he was chosen as the municipality's "Favourite Son" and in 2005 a local school was given the name CEIP Mateo Valero.
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has also recognised Valero with a number of honours, such as the Aragon Award – also known as the San Jorge Award – which is considered the most important awarded by the provincial government (2008), and the Special Award for Aragonese Research by the Asociación.


Publications

Valero has published more than 700 papers in computing journals.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valero, Mateo Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Spanish scientists Computer engineers Telecommunications engineers Technical University of Madrid alumni Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni People from the Province of Zaragoza