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Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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 fourth most powerful) supercomputer as of April 2005.

The Center is placed 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.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial budget of 5.5 million (about US$7 million) to cover the period 2005-2011.

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