Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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IBM's supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Catalan: Centre Nacional de Supercomputació, Spanish: Centro Nacional de Supercomputación), also known by the acronym BSC, is a public research center located in Barcelona, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, Europe's 25th most powerful (and the world's 77th most powerful) supercomputer as of November 2009.[1]
The Center is located in a former chapel named Torre Girona, at the Technical University of Catalonia (also known as UPC) and was constituted on April 1, 2005. It is managed by a consortium composed of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (51%), the Government of Catalonia (37%) and the UPC (12%). Professor Mateo Valero is its main administrator. The MareNostrum supercomputer is contained inside an enormous glass box.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial operational budget of €5.5 million/year (about US$7 million/yr) to cover the period 2005–2011.
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- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center contributes to the development of the IBM Cell microprocessor.[2]
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Coordinates: 41°23′22″N 2°6′58″E / 41.38944°N 2.11611°E / 41.38944; 2.11611
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