The document summarizes information about the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). It discusses that BSC-CNS conducts research in various sciences using supercomputing and has objectives of R&D, providing supercomputing services, and education. It is a consortium supported by Spanish and Catalan governments and UPC. It oversees the MareNostrum supercomputer that provides computing resources to researchers. It also discusses BSC-CNS's research departments and involvement in various European and international projects.

1. www.bsc.es Barcelona, 5 noviembre 2015
Prof. Mateo Valero
BSC Director
BSC-CNS

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Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
BSC-CNS objectives:
– R&D in Computer, Life, Earth and Engineering Sciences
– Supercomputing services to Spanish and EU researchers
– PhD programme, technology transfer, public engagement
BSC-CNS is a consortium that includes:
– Spanish Government 60%
– Catalonian Government 30%
– Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) 10%
425 people, 40 countries

3. The MareNostrum 3 Supercomputer
70% distributed through PRACE
24% distributed through RES
6% for BSC-CNS use
Over 1015 Floating Point Operations per second
Nearly 50,000 cores
100.8 TB of main memory
2 PB of disk storage

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% Pflops available to RES
MareNostrum 3
MinoTauro
Finisterrae II
Magerit 2
Altamira 2
Tirant 2
Picaso 2
Calendula
Caesar Augusta 2
La Palma 2
Cibeles
Pirineus
Lusitania
Atlante
RES: HPC Services for Spain
RES now made up of fourteen supercomputers
Five new incorporations from March 29 2015:
•Finis Terrae II, Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia
(CESGA);
•Pirineus, Consorcio de Servicios Universitarios de Cataluña
(CSUC);
•Lusitania, Fundación Computación y Tecnologías Avanzadas
de Extremadura;
•Caléndula, Centro de Supercomputación de Castilla y León, y
•Cibeles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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Universe Sciences
21%
Mathematics and
Computer Sciences
4%
Fundamental Physics
18%
Engineering
and Energy
13%
Earth System
Sciences
10%
Chemical Sciences
and Materials
21%
BioChemistry,
Bioinformatics and
Life Sciences
13%
MareNostrum:
IBM
BSC, Barcelona,
Spain JUQUEEN: IBM
BlueGene/Q
GAUSS/FZJ
Jülich, Germany
CURIE: Bull Bullx
GENCI/CEA
Bruyères-le-
Châtel, France
SuperMUC: IBM
GAUSS/LRZ
Garching, Germany
FERMI: IBM BlueGene/Q
CINECA , Bologna, Italy
HORNET: Cray
GAUSS/HLRS,
Stuttgart, Germany
4 Hosting Members offering core hours on
6 world-class machines
PRACE

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RISC Project
1. Identified research clusters for targeted research collaboration;
2. Produced a Green Paper on HPC Drivers and Needs in Latin America;
3. Produced a Roadmap for HPC strategic R&D in Latin America;
4. Enhanced HPC R&D policy dialogue between policymakers and stakeholders
Latin America
• Universidad Veracruzana
• Universidad de Chile
• Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Universidad Autónoma de Manizales
• Coppetec Fundaçao do Río de Janeiro
Europe
• BSC
• CINECA
• UPM
• Menon
• Uni Coimbra

7. Performance Development of HPC over the Last
23 Years from the Top500
59.7 GFlop/s59.7 GFlop/s
400 MFlop/s400 MFlop/s
1.17 TFlop/s1.17 TFlop/s
33.9 PFlop/s33.9 PFlop/s
166 TFlop/s166 TFlop/s
362 PFlop/s362 PFlop/s
SUM
N=1
N=500
1 Gflop/s
1 Tflop/s
100 Mflop/s
100 Gflop/s
100 Tflop/s
10 Gflop/s
10 Tflop/s
1 Pflop/s
100 Pflop/s
10 Pflop/s
1 Eflop/s
My Laptop 70 Gflop/s
My iPhone 4 Gflop/s
J. Dongarra

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Mission of BSC Scientific
Departments
EARTH SCIENCES
To develop and implement
global and regional state-
of-the-art models for
short-term air quality
forecast and long-term
climate applications
LIFE SCIENCES
To understand living
organisms by means of
theoretical and
computational methods
(molecular modeling,
genomics, proteomics)
CASE
To develop scientific and
engineering software to
efficiently exploit super-
computing capabilities
(biomedical, geophysics,
COMPUTER
SCIENCES
To influence the way
machines are built,
programmed and used:
programming models,
performance tools, Big
Data, computer
atmospheric, energy,
social and economic simulations)
architecture, energy efficiency

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The Example of Personalised Medicine
Big Data generators
Drug
Development
Data transfer
Pharmaceutical
Companies
Precise
Medicine
Enabling a healthier society
and economic growth
Health Systems
Personalised
Healthcare
Storage
Processing & analysis
Access
Overwhelming IT infrastructures, forcing us to reinvent them

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GEAGAM
H2020
Project
MAX
H2020
Project
Consolider
Syec Project
EUDAT
FP7 Project
(LIFEWATCH)
Consolider
Syec
Blueprint & Elixir
FP7 Projects
Alya Red
Project
Joint Research Programme,
Consolider Syec
Blueprint,
MUG, Elixir
Joint Research
Programme, Consolider
Syec
Blueprint,
MUG, Elixir
Properties
of DNA
SO Centres doing collaborative
research with BSC

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SO Centres who use the
MareNostrum Supercomputer

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BSC Scientific Advisory Board
Members
Prof Dr Achim Bachem
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Dr Catherine Rivière
Présidente Directrice Générale
Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif
Dr Paul Messina
Director of Science
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
Dr Satoshi Matsuoka
Professor of the High Performance Computing
Systems Group, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dr Horst D. Simon
Associate Laboratory Director for Computing
Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Prof Dr Guy Brasseur
Senior Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Prof Janet Thornton
Director, European Bioinformatics
Institute, Hinxton
Dr Thomas Zacharia
Executive Vice President of
Research and Development
Qatar Foundation
Prof Manuel Peitsch
Chairman of Board of Directors
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Prof Jack Dongarra
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department
University of Tennessee
Prof Leonard Barrie
Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Stockholm University

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Severo Ochoa
• Results of the 1st phase (2012-2015):
• Cutting edge multidisciplinary research program developing novel components in the
hardware and software stacks in the Exascale / BigData convergence.
• The SO program allowed BSC to perform research which had a direct effect on the
Center’s ability to achieve H2020 funding.
• Improvement of the BSC training and mobility actions and Human Resources
management, resulting in achievement of the HR Excellence in Research Badge
(HRS4R).
• Intensification of the communication of the Center’s activities and results.
• Increased participation in the leading international supercomputing initiatives such as
BDEC, JLESC, policy forums such as RDA, and cutting-edge HPC application initiatives
such as SKA, PanCancer and IS-ENES.

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EU HPC Ecosystem
Centers of Excellence in HPC applications
• Specifications of exascale prototypes
• Technological options for future systems
• Identify applications for co‐
design of exascale systems
• Innovative methods and
algorithms for extreme
parallelism of traditional &
emerging applications
• Collaboration of HPC
Supercomputing
Centres and application
CoEs
• Provision of HPC capabilities
and expertise

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The Codesign Challenge
EoCoE
Energy oriented
Centre of Excellence
(led by CEA)
ESiWACE
Excellence in SImulation of
Weather and Climate in Europe
(Led by DKRZ)
BioExcel
Centre of Excellence for
Biomolecular Research
(Led by KTH)
NOMAD
The Novel Materials
Discovery Laboratory
(Led by Max Planck)
MAX
Materials design at
the eXascale
(Led by CNR)
PoP
Performance Optimization
and Productivity
(Led by BSC)
COEGSS
Center of Excellence for
Global Systems Science
(Led by Potsdam Uni)
E-CAM
Software, training and
consultancy in simulation
and modelling
(Uni College Dublin)
participates participates
participates participates participates
leads

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R&D projects with IT Companies
BSC-Microsoft Research
Centre
BSC-IBM Technology Center
for Supercomputing
BSC-NVIDIA CUDA
Center of Excellence
Intel-BSC Exascale Lab
Current project: 1,2M€
FTE: 10
End date: 31/12/2015
New project: under negotiation
Current project: 473.600€
FTE: 3
End date: 31/12/2016
Current project: 467.433€
FTE: 4,5
End date: 31/03/2017Current project: 2,0M€
FTE: 12
End date: 30/09/2017
Current project: 558.681€
FTE: 6
End date: 31/12/2016
Current project: 172.890€
FTE: 6
End date: 26/10/2015
Currently negotiating possible
research project of 1,5M€
over 3 years.
Currently negotiating project
on education; also possibility
of research project.

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Competitive Funding since 2015

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41 H2020 projects approved or in
negotiation for combined BSC
grant of 17.1M€. (85 proposals
rejected.)
Success rate of 32.5%
considering nº of projects, and
27.85% considering funding
requested.
Average success rate for H2020 (for
nº of projects) is between 12 and 14%.
H2020 Results so far

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Education and Professional Training
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There is a shortage of
HPC professionals
Users must also be
trained
This fast moving
technology area
needs a
multidisciplinary
educational approach
• Master & PhD
programmes
• Summer schools
• Workshops
• Seminars
• Retreats

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• Scientific community
• Media
• Industry
• Politicians
• General Public
• BSC staff
Channels
Target
Six person Communication team
• Media Relations and Protocol
• Corporate Image and Events
• Online and Internal Communication
• Project Dissemination
• Visits
…plus Scientific Visualisation area
Communication at BSC

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BSC Current Website

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Communication at BSC
Barcelona Supercomputer ARMed for
Assault on World’s Fastest Machines
Barcelona Center Makes Super Bet
on Cellphone Chips
Cutting edge tech plays key role for
Repsol in hunt for oil
Internal Communication
Web & Social Media
Media EventsVisits & Outreach
Project Dissemination
Winner: 2013 International
Visualisation Challenge
Visualisation

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• Professional Training Program
• PRACE Advanced Training Center (14 courses currently offered).
• RES training sessions (for researchers, technicians and scientists).
• CUDA Center of Excellence courses (over 600 trainees in three years).
• Seasonal Schools (3-4 annually).
• BSC International Doctoral Symposium (2014 and 2015).
• Severo Ochoa
• Research Seminars (52 seminars in the last 3 years).
• Exchange and Mobility Program (32 incoming and 31 outgoing mobility
grants in 2013-2015).
• Commitment with the University
• MSc Degree in High Performance Computing FIB-UPC.
• Master and Bachelor scholarships and internships.
• PhD and Postdoc opportunities (currently 75 PhD Students and 51
PostDoc Researchers).
Education & Training
In the last 3 years, over 80 courses taught, with 3.200 attendees (900 in Latin America) to
the Professional Trainings, Workshops and Seasonal Schools.

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Helping to define the future of global HPC
International Roadmapping Leadership in Exascale
Enabling the Data Revolution
Contributing to Standardisation
Research Infrastructures
MoU with CINECA, CEA & Jülich 2nd MoU with CEA

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Severo Ochoa
• Proposal delivered for the 2nd phase (2016-2019):
• Takes into account BSC’s three main strategic objectives:
• be the backbone of e-science in Europe and Spain.
• achieve research excellence at the international level.
• have a positive impact on society and the economy.
• Prioritization of the application areas of cognitive computing, energy, environment and
health.
• BSC’s flagship software solutions and new technologies will continue to be developed to
support the compute-and data-intensive workloads as HPC and Big Data converge.
• Technology Transfer at BSC will be consolidated with additional staff.
• Participation in strategic international forums will be increased.
• Attraction and development of talent will continue.

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