Monday 30 of May the first year students of SMX visited the Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe and is physically located inside the chapel of the Girona Tower, al BSC Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
More than 700 experts and professionals in research and development, participating in major European high-performance computing initiatives. Among the projects that have been explained to us are those of big data and simulation to make climate predictions, improve engine performance and aerodynamics, study of genomes and molecules to understand how different diseases develop and collaborate in the development of vaccines for HIV or the Coronavirus.
The place is spectacular: between the modern buildings and the garden of the BSC and the Girona chapel, and its entire interior is occupied by the supercomputer: arranged in corridors we observe the cooling, storage towers and process units, which in this case are interconnected by more than 100 Km of fiber optics and they can work together as if they were a single machine.
To see more photos of the outing go here.