Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Carrer de Jordi Girona, 31, 08034 Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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N41° 23' 22" E2° 6' 58"   (41.389444444444, 2.1161111111111) Start navigation »

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) (Catalan: Centre Nacional de Supercomputació, Spanish: Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, a 1,017.04 TFLOPS Xeon E5649-based supercomputer that, in November 2015, ranked 93rd in the world.
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 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.
The Center has contributed to the development of the IBM Cell microprocessor architecture.

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