Barcelona is full of amazing, exciting scientific institutions, innovators and world-leading research centers. Here at Barcelona Fun Science, we love creating opportunities for you, our community, to expore these spaces, connect with the professionals who are part of this, and have the opportunity to ask questions and be curious!
In this spirit, we are very excited to announce our latest exclusive field trip! On Monday 2nd October, we will be going on an extra-special out-of-hours visit to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (https://www.bsc.es/), home to MareNostrum (https://www.bsc.es/marenostrum/marenostrum), the most powerful supercomputer in Spain!
Ever wondered what a processing power of 11.5 Petaflops looks like? (eleven thousand trillion operations per second) - come join us on a 45-minute guided tour of this incredible local resource, which is an international center of excellence in e-Science and one of the resources that helps keep Barcelona at the cutting edge of Spanish science.
We will be learning all about the technical details of MareNostrum (1, 2, 3 and 4!), understanding the history and background behind how one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe came into being in Barcelona, and thinking about applications and uses for such incredible processing power - all in the beautiful setting of the 19th Century Torre Girona Chapel.
A huge thank you to community member Ernest, who was heavily involved in building MareNostrum over many years, and who helped us to arrange our exclusive out-of-hours visit and guided tour.
As we have a private tour in the evening outside of the normal visiting times, there is a small charge of 8EUR per person, to cover the cost of the visit.
The tour is strictly limited to 30 people, and will last until 20:15 (45 minutes). Afterwards, we will all go to a bar together to talk about the visit and what we have learned in a social environment.
Remember to RSVP to guarantee your place, and feel free to bring along your friends too!
