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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), founded in 2004 and based in Barcelona, Spain, is a nonprofit that conducts technology and scientific research across multiple disciplines. The organization includes computer, earth, and life sciences research units. It has conducted grid computing, programming, storage, climate change, meteorological, mineral dust, computational genomics, molecular modeling, protein interaction, and other studies. The organization was established by the Spanish government's Ministry of Education and Science, Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). It pursues research programs first defined by the European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA), which was founded in 1991. In 2000, CEPBA worked with IBM (R) in establishing the CEPBA-IBM Research Institute, which focuses on deep computing and architecture research. The BSC operates the MareNostrum supercomputer, which is the most powerful computer in Europe. The computer was deployed in 2005. Its calculation capacity was doubled in 2006. BSC is overseen by a board of trustees, an executive commission, and by scientific advisory and business boards.
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