Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), also known as the Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion, is a supercomputing and research centre. Its website presents research areas including AI, quantum computing, and climate and health studies, and it operates the MareNostrum supercomputer. BSC states it has a portfolio of over 150 research projects financed by public and private sources, both national and international. It has inherited the legacy of the European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA), a research, development and innovation centre on efficient computing technologies for academia and industry that belonged to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and started its activities in 1991.

BSC has inherited the legacy of the European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA), a research, development and innovation centre on efficient computing technologies for both academia and industry. CEPBA belonged to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and was sponsored by the Spanish CICYT and the Catalan CIRIT. In 1991 CEPBA started its activities, gathering the experience and needs of various UPC departments; the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) provided experience in the lower level of a computing system, and five other UPC departments with high computation demand joined DAC to set up CEPBA.

1. 1BSC-CNS | Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacionbsc.es
2. 2History | BSC-CNSbsc.es
3. 3Access to RES | BSC-CNSbsc.es