ABOUT BSC

- Public consortium made of:

o 60%  Spanish Government.
o 30%  Catalan Government.
o 10%  UPC
- National supercomputing center in Spain.
- They specialize in High-performance computing.
o The practice of aggregating computer power in a way that delivers much higher
performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or
workstation to solve large problems in science, engineering, or business.”
o It is used when investigations are  too big, expensive, dangerous or slow, also
when they’re not quite practical or directly impossible to do in a lab.
o It is use for  simulations, big calculations and to analyze big amounts of data.
o It enables advancement that leads to improved healthcare, better climate
forecasting, superior materials, more competitive industries.
- MareNostrum 5  EuroHPC
o 314 Petaflops peak performance (314 x 10 a la 15) 
 A flop (floating-point operations per second) is the unit of measurement
that calculates the performance capability of a supercomputer)
 A petaflop is a unit of computing speed that equals to one quadrillion
flops
o Has helped develop World-changing scientific breakthroughs  Digital Twins,
advancement of precision medicine
o Total investment  200 million Euros
o 20 TIMES more powerful than MN4
- MareNostrum 4  13.9 Petaflops (13,900 trillion operations per second)
- At the service of the international scientific community  Essential tool for
international competitiveness in science and engineering
- And 6 core departments: Computer sciences, life sciences, earth sciences and CASE
(Computer Applications in Science and Engineering), Operations and Management.
o The scientific departments have several research groups each headed by a team
leader.

- Research focused on 4 fields:

o Computer Sciences  To influence the way machines are built, programmed
and used: Programming models, performance tools, big data, AI, computer
architecture, energy efficiency…
 Director: Jesus Labarta Mancho
 Teams and Team Leader (in MWC)
 Computer Archiqtecture – Operating Systems (CAOS)
o Fran Cazorla y Jaume Abella
 High Performance Artificial Intelligence
o Dario Garcia
 High Performance Domain-Specific Architectures
o Miquel Moreto
 Predictable Parallel Computing
 o Eduardo Quiñones
 Workflows and Distributed Computings
o Rosa M Badia

o Life Sciences  To understand living organisms by means of theoretical and

computational methods.
 Director  Alfonso Valencia
 Teams  Comparative Genomics, Computational Biology,
Computational Genomics, Electronic and Atomic Protein Modeling
(EAPM), Integrative Computational Network Biology (ICONBI),
Transcriptomics and Functional Genomics Lab (TFGL)
 Units and Leader
 Language Technology Units
o Marta Villegas
 Other units  Genome informatics, Machine Leaning for
Biomedical Research, NLP for Biomedical Information
Analysis, Social and Media Impact Evaluation, Spanihs
National Bioinformatics Institute (INB)/ELIXIR-ES –
Computational team

o Earth Sciences  To develop and implement global and regional models and
data solutions for air quality and climate forecasting and their applications:
Molecular modeling, genomics, proteomics…
 Director  Francisco J Doblas
 Teams
 Atmospheric Composition, Climate Variability and Change,
Computational Earth Sciences, Eart System Services, General
Earth Sciences, Global Health Resilience.

o Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (CASE)  To develop

scientific and engineering software to efficiently exploit super-computing
capabilities  Biomedical, geophysics, atmospheric, energy, social and
economic simulations.
 Director  Jose Maria Cela
 Teams  Computational Social Sciences and Digital Humanities, Data
Analytics and Visualization, Environmental Simulations, Fusion,
General CASE, Geometry and Meshing for Simulation, Geophysical
Applications, High Performance Computational Mechanics, HPC
Software Engineering, Materials Science, Physical and Numerical
Modelling, Propulsion Technologies, Quantic, Smart Cities.

BSC EN NUMEROS (2022)

Research

Technology Tranfer

Supercomputing
Publicaciones más importantes

- Eart system dynamics  Constraining low frequency variability in climate projections

to predict climate on decal to multi-decal timescales – a poor man’s initialized
protection system.
- Climate services  how decadal predictions entered the climate services arena: an
example from the agriculture sector.
- IEEE International Symposium  Adaptable Register File Organization for Vector
Processors.
- Scientific reports  Clustering and graph mining techniques for classification of
complex structural variations in cancer genomes.
- Genome biology  PerSVAde: Personalized Structural Variant Detection in any
species of interest.
- Angewandte Chemie  A plurizme with transaminase and hydrolase activity catalyzes
cascade reactions.
- Combustion and flame  analysis of local extinction of a n-heptane spray flame
using large-eddy stimulation with tabulated chemistry.
- Physical review research  Coherent phase slips in coupled matter-wave circuits

Noticias importantes

- Key role for BSC in EU's bid to fight climate change: a virtual replica of Earth
o BSC is participating in the development of the so-called digital Earth twins, as
part of the European Union's Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative. The aim is
to create, with high precision, a virtual replica of the Earth system to predict the
effects of and build resilience to climate change. With a total budget of around
€4.5 million, BSC is one of the European institutions with the largest
contribution in this first round and one of the few participating in both twins.
DestinE is an ambitious initiative that combines the green transition driven by
the EU and the Digital Europe Program in an effort to find solutions to the
climate change crisis.
The initiative has an initial investment of €150 million from the Digital Europe
Program until mid-2024. it is being implemented by three organizations: the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the
European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organization for the
 Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) it will be carried out
over a 7 to 10-year period, after which a complete digital replica of the Earth
will have been created through the convergence of the digital twins developed.
This reproduction will make it possible to monitor and predict the state of our
planet's health, taking into account the effects of climate change and the
evolution of natural systems such as the oceans, atmosphere and forests. It will
also provide stakeholders with an assessment of the effectiveness and impact of
public policies on the environment.
- A BSC study establishes a methodology to mitigate energy crises in Europe through
climate predictions.
- Danlaw, a world leader in automotive and connected cars electronics, acquires the
Maspatechnologies SL spin-off
- BSC and Lenovo from a partnership to advance supercomputing technology
- BSC Coordinates a project to use supercomputing to detect breast cancer more
effectively
- BSC coordinates a project to create a European digital environment to speed up cancer
research
- BSC participates in a study that changes the current view of the evolution of leukemia

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

- Weave an alliance through a collaborative framework to accelerate the adoption of

innovative solutions based on supercomputing/AI.
- Build a strategic alliance by partially implementing small work teams in the BSC.
- Participate in a differential learning model in a singular research center to obtain
business results.

BSC’s spin-offs

- 11 Spin-Offs  NDB, Mitiga Solutions, ELEM, NBYCOMP NearbyComputing,

MASPA Technologies, Qbeast, Qilimanjaro Quantumtech, Nextmol, frontwave, EAS,
Openchip
- 30 technologies transferred.
- 160 jobs created.
- 23 million euros in Raised Capital

Computadores cuanticos

- Since the 60`s, the power of brain machines has kept growing exponentially, allowing
computers to get smaller and more powerful at the same time.