Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), established in 2005, serves as the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain. The mission of the BSC-CNS is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. The BSC-CNS not only strives to become a first-class research centre in supercomputing, but also in scientific fields that demand high performance computing resources such as the Life and Earth Sciences. Following this approach, the BSC-CNS has brought together a critical mass of top-notch researchers, high performance computing experts and cutting-edge supercomputing technologies in order to foster multidisciplinary scientific collaboration and innovation. In addition, the BSC-CNS is one of the PRACE tier-0 centres.

The Computer Sciences Department of the BSC-CNS will be mainly contributing to HiPEAC3, providing his long background and software technologies to enable an efficient use of high-performance computing infrastructures. The department proposes novel architectures for processors and memory hierarchies, proposes novel programming models and innovative implementation approaches for these models as well as tools for performance analysis and prediction. In addition, the department does research on resource management at various component levels (processor, memory, interconnect and storage) and for different execution environments, including supercomputing and virtualized data centres.