The UPC celebrates the inauguration of MareNostrum 5, which positions the University as a global benchmark in supercomputing knowledge
Recently, the rector of the UPC, Daniel Crespo, welcomed Catalan president Pere Aragonès and Spanish president Pedro Sánchez to the launch event of MareNostrum 5 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center–Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS).
Jan 24, 2024
The rector of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), Daniel Crespo; the director general of Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission, Roberto Viola; the Spanish minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant Ripoll; the Spanish minister of Research and Universities, Joaquim Nadal; and the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, visited the BSC’s MareNostrum 5 supercomputer room to attend the launch event of one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputing centres, which will advance research in critical areas such as artificial intelligence and numerical simulation.
Located within UPC facilities, the BSC-CNS is one of the most important supercomputing centres in Europe, with more than 900 employees, most of them researchers in four scientific departments: computer sciences, life sciences, earth sciences and computational applications for science and engineering.
The BSC-CNS is a public consortium made up of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Government of Catalonia and the UPC. It was founded in 2004, and today, it employs a thousand people, including numerous scientists from the UPC.
The rector highlighted the significance of this milestone for science, Barcelona and all of Europe, "but also for the UPC, which is taking a big step to become a leading university in the scientific modernisation of knowledge and supercomputing in Europe." Crespo emphasised that Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s MareNostrum 5 is "the successful result of collaboration between all its institutions and the University. This alliance places us at the forefront of science, technology and society in Europe."
Crespo celebrated the collaboration of the entire MareNostrum 5 partnership and, on behalf of the scientific community, expressed his gratitude that this supercomputer is finally a reality.
