Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the national supercomputing centre in Spain. We specialise in high performance computing (HPC) and manage MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, located in the Torre Girona chapel.
BSC is at the service of the international scientific community and of industry that requires HPC resources. Our multidisciplinary research team and our computational facilities –including MareNostrum– make BSC an international centre of excellence in e-Science.
Since its establishment in 2005, BSC has developed an active role in fostering HPC in Spain and Europe as an essential tool for international competitiveness in science and engineering. The centre manages the Red Española de Supercomputación (RES), and is a hosting member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) initiative. We actively participate in the main European HPC initiatives, in close cooperation with other European supercomputing centres.
With a total staff of more than 725 R&D experts and professionals, BSC has been successful in attracting talent, and our research focuses on four fields: Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications in Science and Engineering. Our research lines are developed within the framework of European Union research funding programmes, Spanish and Catalan public research calls and collaborations with leading companies.
TEXTAROSSA Role in TEXTAROSSA
In TextaRossa, BSC will mainly contribute to WPs 1, 2 and 4. BSC will bring its expertise in task-based runtime systems adapting OmpSs@FPGA to TextaRossa Integrated Development Vehicle. We will also work on new programming model features to improve communications between CPUs and FPGAs and improve the deployment of application kernels to accelerators.
Key personnel
• Antonio Filgueras
• Miquel Vidal
• Daniel Jiménez
• Carlos Álvarez
• Xavier Martorell
E-mail addresses: name.surname@bsc.es
