The Minister of Science and Innovation visited the chapel where the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer is housed and visited the recently finished facilities that will host MareNostrum 5, in which the Spanish Government has invested more than €52M.
MareNostrum 5, one of the most advanced supercomputers in Europe, will promote research projects in numerous disciplines such as Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computational Applications in Science and Engineering.
The Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, visited Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) this Thursday, which she has defined it as a center at the forefront of computational calculation. Morant has referred to the BSC as a "model of international prestige in the field of supercomputing" and has highlighted its important contribution to attracting and retaining scientific talent in our country.
She visited the chapel where the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer is housed and the facilities that will host MareNostrum 5, where the Spanish Government has invested more than 52 million euros.
The BSC is a public consortium made up of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Its research staff exceeds 760 people, its lines of research are developed within the framework of European Union funding programs, Spanish and Catalan public calls for research and collaborations with leading companies.
The center is the third Spanish institution to receive European funding from the H2020 program, with more than 108 million obtained in this program.
MareNostrum 5, the most powerful supercomputer in Spain and one of the most advanced in Europe
MareNostrum 5 will perform large amounts of data to drive research projects in areas such as Computer Science, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computational Applications in Science and Engineering. This supercomputer will be 17 times more powerful than MareNostrum 4 and 10,000 times more powerful than the first MareNostrum, which was installed in 2004. Consequently, it will be the most powerful supercomputer in Spain and one of the three most powerful in Europe, within the framework of the European supercomputing strategy (EuroHPC).
MareNostrum 5 will include an experimental platform dedicated to developing new technologies for the future generation of supercomputers.
In this sense, the BSC, in addition to offering supercomputing services of first level, will contribute with his research so that future generations of supercomputers can incorporate fully developed technologies in Europe.
