Consortium

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC), established in 2005, serves as the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain. The Centre hosts MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputer in Europe (94 TeraFlop/s system, based on PowerPC processors, running Linux, with 20 TeraByte of Memory and 280 TeraByte disk space. BSC operates a SL8500 with LTO-4 tape drives for an HSM and backup system with 6 PetaByte of storage capacity without compression)

The mission of the BSC-CNS is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. The BSC-CNS strives not only to become a first-class research centre in supercomputing, but also in scientific fields that demand high performance computing resources such as the Life and Earth Sciences. Following this approach, the BSC-CNS has brought together a critical mass of top-notch researchers, high performance computing experts and cutting-edge supercomputing technologies in order to foster multidisciplinary scientific collaboration and innovation. BSC-CNS coordinates the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) which has a total capacity of 136 TeraFlop/s, and includes seven supercomputer centres in Spain. Every year RES makes available a total of 130 million CPU hours for scientist.

UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) are linked to BSC and discribed bellow :

PC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

The High Performance Computing research group of the Computer Architecture Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) is the leading research group in Europe in topics related to high performance processor architectures, runtime support for parallel programming models and performance tuning applications for supercomputing. There is a signed Collaboration Agreement between the UPC and the BSC establishing the framework of the relationship between these two entities. According to this agreement, several professors of the UPC are made available to the BSC to work on projects.

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

The objective of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) is to promote, coordinate, develop and disseminate the scientific and technology research of a multidisciplinary nature, with the aim of contributing to the pursuit of higher knowledge as well as economic, social and cultural development in Spain. It also promotes training of personnel and consultancy to public and private institutions.  CSIC researchers carry out their work at universities and research centers based in Spain with which CSIC actively collaborates.  This collaboration takes place within the framework of long-term agreements, ensuring that CSIC researchers are fully integrated into teams and research projects. CSIC has signed collaboration agreements with several entities, including the BSC.

Dr. Rosa Badía.