MareNostrum
BSC-CNS hosts MareNostrum, the most powerful supercomputer in Spain. MareNostrum has been upgraded from its installtion in 2004 to keep the machine in the top positions of the TOP500 list, as one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.
Summary
MareNostrum is one of the Tier-0 systems currently available to European scientists and is also part of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES). The RES network brings together the most powerful supercomputers in Spain to provide high-performance computing (HPC) resources to research communities across the country.
The operations team manages the entire infrastructure—ranging from the cooling systems to user support—including system administration, networking, and security.
Objectives
MareNostrum is managed by the Operations team, which takes care of its availability, security and performance. An important task of this team is to support scientists in the usage of MareNostrum, as well as to help them to improve their applications to get better research results.