Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) or Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (CNS) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, Europe's most powerful (and the world's fifth most powerful) supercomputer as of November 2006.
The Center is placed 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/yr (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.[1]
