BarcelonaTwo a long time of science and data serving the general public have positioned Catalonia as one of the crucial progressive areas in Europe. This is the legacy of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) since its inception 20 years in the past with the set up of the primary MareNostrum supercomputer. During this time, the middle has turn into a hub for expertise, analysis tasks, and financial progress in the Catalan capital, whereas concurrently rising its computing capability with the set up of more and more highly effective supercomputers, culminating in MareNostrum 5. The arrival of a new quantum computer, one of many first of European manufacturing, and from one of the first European artificial intelligence (AI) factoriesAnd the MareNostrum 6 on the horizon marks the way forward for the establishment, which is obvious that it desires to proceed advancing true to its legacy.
“Science must be relevant above all else. If it doesn’t solve societal problems, it’s not worth researching,” argued the director of the BSC, Mateo Valero, this Wednesday in the course of the middle’s twentieth anniversary celebration. Valero reviewed the middle’s trajectory since its founding in 2005 and in addition that of the European Center for Parallelism in Barcelona (CEPBA), the primary analysis middle in Spain devoted to parallel computer systems, which they launched 40 years in the past and which has been the “seed” of greater than 1,400 tasks. Valero, nonetheless, asserted that the essence stays the identical as once they launched CEPBA: “A meeting point between science and society, a center that wants to continue leading European technological development to address the great challenges of our time.”
The first MareNostrum, put in in a former chapel on the campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), was essentially the most highly effective pc in Europe and the fourth strongest in the world, putting Spain on the forefront of high-performance computing. The objective was—and stays as we speak with MareNostrum 5, which is among the many 10 strongest supercomputers in the world—to sort out enormously complicated issues requiring numerical calculations that can’t be carried out with another software. For instance, discovering options to the local weather disaster, combating incurable ailments, or discovering new, just about infinite sources of vitality, amongst many different strains of analysis at the moment being pursued by the BSC.
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During the commemoration ceremony, the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, proudly said that the town is dwelling to the establishment, wishing it one other 20 years of service to science and the general public. Meanwhile, the Minister of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat, affirmed that in these two a long time the middle has turn into a real “center.” The BSC chapel now homes the Quantum Spain digital quantum pc, the primary in Spain developed with 100% European know-how, and is getting ready to accommodate a second analog quantum system from the European quantum computing community. Both are a part of MareNostrum Ona, the quantum system related to MareNostrum 5. Furthermore, the chapel will host the growth of MareNostrum 5 subsequent 12 months, which is able to improve its processing capability by virtually 50% and “place Barcelona, Catalonia, and Spain at the forefront” of the establishment.