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This upgrade, part of the Spanish government's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024, will increase MareNostrum 5's processing capacity by almost 50%, over 450 petaflops, or the ability to perform up to 450,000 trillion operations per second. Another of the main objectives of the strategy is the creation of a plan for language models in Spanish and co-official languages, ALIA, that are open and transparent, avoiding bias and improving the quality of applications. BSC will be the techni...

Spain is to create a significant foundational large language model, trained in Spanish as well as the country's co-official languages

This milestone is one of the first results of the Quantum Spain program, promoted by the Spanish Government through the State Secretariat for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, and allows reinforcing the European leadership of the national Quantum Computing ecosystem, attracting an infrastructure that will involve an investment of 12.5 million euros. The BSC-CNS is a public consortium formed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Poli...

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected six sites across the European Union (EU) to host the first EuroHPC [...]

Quantum is said to be one of "More Transformational" and "Revolutionary" Technologies At all times, with influences present in all fields, from security to

He project includes the construction and commissioning of the first quantum computer in southern Europe, which will be operational by the end of 2022 and will be installed at BSC.

Oct. 29, 2021 -- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has begun coordination work on the Quantum Spain project, which provides for the construction

The new 12,000 m2 facility houses 530 workers from the center and is preparing to receive the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer. The center invites citizens to participate in the celebration of the new headquarters, with two days of open doors and popular activities. The Regional Minister of Research and Universities, the General Secretary for Research of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Rector of the UPC and the President of the Repsol Foundation participate in the official inauguration ce...

The BSC is a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence and a first level hosting member of the European research infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). The BSC also manages the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES). As a research center, the BSC has more than 470 experts and R&D Professionals organized into four main research areas: Computer Sciences, LifeSciences, Earth Sciences and Computer Applications in Science and Engineering. In the Computer Science area, our res...

Oct. 14, 2021 -- The Professional College of Computer Science Education of Galicia (CPEIG) awards the Prize of the Collegiate of Honor in the "XIII Noite