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MareNostrum
BSC-CNS hosts MareNostrum, the most powerful supercomputer in Spain. In March 2004 the Spanish government and IBM signed an agreement to build one of the the fastest computer in Europe. In November 2006 its capacity was increased due to the large demand of scientific projects. MareNostrum increased the calculation capacity until reaching 94.21 Teraflops (94.21 trillions of operations per second), doubling its previous capacity (42.35 Teraflops). It had 4.812 processors and afterwards it had 10.240 processors with a final calculation capacity of 94.21 Teraflops.
After the last upgrade on December 2012, MareNostrum has 48,448 Intel Sandy Bridge processors in 3,028 nodes, with more than 94 TB of main memory and 1.9 PB of disk storage. Currently, MareNostrum holds the 36th position in the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.
MareNostrum is managed by the Operations team that takes care of its availability, security and performance. An important task of this team is to support scientists in the usage of MareNostrum, as well as to help them in the improvement of their applications getting better research results.
These resources and expertise are not just available remotely. Spanish scientists as well as European ones can visit BSC-CNS through the available mobility programs in order to work together with our experts in supercomputing and learn more about how to improve their work and research results.
The RES area (Spanish Supercomputing Network Area) provides access to information and user control of different activities. This is the new procedure to assign users to an activity, to identify resources, to submit new applications, etc.
The list of accepted activities for 1st period 2013 was published on February, 25th.
These activities start in March 1st, 2013.
The deadline for 2013 1st period applications will be on the first days of January 2013.
Mobility programs: BSC-CNS promotes mobility programs for scientists to stay for a period of time in one of the leading research centers in Europe. You will be able to use our resources and exchange know-how with Spanish scientists.
System Arquitecture: Here you will find a technical description and documentation of the whole system including storage servers, computational blades, high speed network, switches and so on.
