Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is a public research center located in , , . It hosts MareNostrum, a 13.7 Petaflops, Intel Xeon Platinum-based supercomputer, which also includes clusters of emerging technologies.
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  • Email: info@bsc.es
  • Type: Research institute
  • Description: Research and supercomputing facility
  • Also known as: “Barcelona Supercomputing Centre”, “BSC”, “Centre Nacional de Supercomputació”, and “Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion”
  • Address: Plaça d’Eusebi Güell 1-3, Barcelona, 08034

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Camp Nou and Royal Palace of Pedralbes.

Stadium
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, officially Spotify for sponsorship reasons, and often referred to in English as the Nou Camp, is a stadium in and the home of La Liga club FC Barcelona since its opening in 1957. is situated 1¼ km southeast of Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Castle
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The is a building placed in the middle of an ample garden in the district of Les Corts, in . From 1919 until 1931 and since 1975 it has been the official residence for the Spanish royal family when they visit the city, although they currently prefer the . is situated 160 metres southeast of Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

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The so-called Pavellons Güell, or , is a complex of buildings in the neighborhood of , , by the Catalan Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí, built between 1884 and 1887. is situated 280 metres east of Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pedralbes and La Maternitat i Sant Ramon.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in district of , . Before the administrative division of 1984, the neighborhood was part of Sarrià and the former municipality of Sant Vicenç de Sarrià.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the district of , , the westernmost area of the district, distinctly more working class than its neighbours and and similar to the also neighbouring and .

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the district of , , . Its main street is Major de .

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Latitude
41.38977° or 41° 23′ 23″ north
Longitude
2.11607° or 2° 6′ 58″ east
Open location code
8FH494Q8+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 980891038
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­research_institute
Wiki­data ID
Q1580126
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Barcelona Supercomputing Center” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مركز برشلونة للحوسبة الفائقة”
  • Asturian: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Asturian: “BSC-CNS”
  • Asturian: “Centru de Supercomputación de Barcelona”
  • Bengali: “বার্সেলোনা সুপারকম্পিউটিং সেন্টার”
  • Catalan: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centre Nacional de Supercomputació”
  • Catalan: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Catalan: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • Catalan: “Centre de Supercomputació de Barcelona”
  • Chinese: “巴塞罗那超级计算中心”
  • Chinese: “巴塞羅那超級計算中心”
  • Esperanto: “Barcelona Superkomputada Centro”
  • Esperanto: “Centro Nacia de Superkomputado”
  • French: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • French: “BSC”
  • French: “centre national de superinformatique”
  • French: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion”
  • French: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Galician: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • Galician: “Centro de Supercomputación de Barcelona”
  • German: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • Indonesian: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • Indonesian: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Japanese: “バルセロナ・スーパーコンピューティング・センター”
  • Korean: “바르셀로나 슈퍼컴퓨팅 센터”
  • Polish: “Barcelońskie Centrum Superkomputerowe”
  • Polish: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Portuguese: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Slovenian: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • Slovenian: “Barcelonski superračunalniški center”
  • Slovenian: “BSC”
  • Spanish: “Barcelona Supercomputing Center”
  • Spanish: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion”
  • Spanish: “Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”
  • Turkish: “Barselona Süper Bilgisayar Merkezi”
  • “Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación”

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