Overview
- At a packed ceremony in Barcelona, officials celebrated the BSC’s two decades of growth into a leading high‑performance computing hub for Spain and the EU.
- MareNostrum 5 was highlighted as the flagship system, described as performing up to 314,000 billion calculations per second for research from climate modeling to biomedicine and AI.
- Recent coverage cited about €552 million in Spanish government funding over the past five years, complementing a long‑standing model with central, regional and European support.
- The center is advancing frontier efforts including the MareNostrum Ona quantum initiative, the BSC AI Factory and projects to develop European high‑performance RISC‑V chips.
- The institution now counts more than 1,600 staff, with founding director Mateo Valero reiterating its societal mission and Cristian Canton recently stepping in as associate director.