The building of Barcelona Supercomputing Center is a former chapel.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) or Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (CNS) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, Europe's most powerful (and the world's fifth most powerful) supercomputer as of November 2006. Image File history File links As a courtesy of the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. ... Image File history File links As a courtesy of the Barcelona Supercomputer Center. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Postal code 08001-08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... MareNostrum Supercomputer - CG rendered image. ... European redirects here. ... A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. ... November 2006 is the eleventh month of that year and has yet to occur. ...

The Center is placed in a former chapel named Torre Girona, at the Technical University of Catalonia (also known as UPC) and was constituted on April 1st 2005. It is managed by a consortium composed of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (51%), the Government of Catalonia (37%) and the UPC (12%). Professor Mateo Valero is its main administrator. The MareNostrum supercomputer is contained inside an enormous glass box. A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... The Technical University of Catalonia (Catalan: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spanish: Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña) is located in the city of Barcelona, Spain. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organisations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. ... The Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia ) is the institution in which the self-government of Catalonia is politically organised. ... Look up Administration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial operational budget of €5.5 million/yr (about US$7 million/yr) to cover the period 2005-2011. Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. ... ISO 4217 Code EUR User(s) European Union; eurozone: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain; outside eurozone: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Montenegro, Kosovo, French Guiana, Réunion, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

Notes

• The Barcelona Supercomputing Center contributes to the development of the IBM Cell microprocessor.[1]

Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by a Sony, Toshiba, and IBM alliance known as STI. The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center over a four-year period beginning March 2001 on a budget reported by IBM as approaching $400 million. ...

External links

• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)