Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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 63.8 TFLOPS PowerPC-based supercomputer that, in June 2012, ranked 465th in the world. It also hosts a newer 103.2 TFLOPS supercomputer using Xeon E5649 processors.
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.[1]
Staff
- Director of Life Sciences: Modesto Orozco[2]
Notes
- ↑ "Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC)". Bsc.es. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
- ↑ Suzanne Tracy (ed.), "First Description of Triple DNA Helix in Vacuum", Scientific Computing (Advantage Business Media), retrieved November 26, 2012