The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer will launch the conquest of processors and chips 'made in Europe'.

The future supercomputer MareNostrum 5 of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - National Center of Supercomputing (BSC) will launch the conquest of processors and chips 'made in Europe' so that the 2025 machines can incorporate it, announced on Monday at a press conference on director, Mateo Valero, after choosing the center to house pre-exescale technology within the EuroHCP initiative.

The event has also brought together the Consellers of Enterprise and Knowledge of the Generalitat, Àngels Chacón, and of Digital Policies and Public Administration, Jordi Puigneró; the Director of Communication Networks, Content and Technologies of the European Commission (CE), Roberto Viola; the Secretary of State for Universities and Research, Ángeles María Heras; and the rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Francesc Torres.

Europe made MareNostrum supercomputer 5

The Director of Communication Networks of the CE, Roberto Viola, stressed that the Barcelona supercomputer, which will receive an investment of 100 million euros, plays in the 'league' of the largest supercomputers in the world: "The one we announce today is The biggest in the world".

"We always talk about the US and China" in the field of supercomputing, Viola has shown, and has celebrated that, with this investment and networking, Europe is at the forefront of this scientific map related to the artificial intelligence. The peculiarity of MareNostrum 5 is its ability to develop technologies through an experimental platform with which it submitted its candidacy and which has now been approved.

The MareNostrum 5 will enter into operation on January 1, 2021, in a new building, after the Torre Girona Chapel of the UPC, where the MareNostrum4 is and will continue to be small. "Technological independence" Getting European chips and processors will bring "technological independence and greater competitiveness," said Valero, who highlighted the strength of the current supercomputer in programming languages, artificial intelligence and personalized medicine.

"If we are not good at artificial intelligence, there is war, the current situation is making us slaves without war," said the director of the BSC, accompanied by Secretary of State Ángeles María Heras, who has joined the request to achieve a Europe strong in technology. 5G chips and conflicts between countries "The cars of the future will need very powerful 5G chips and what if they come from one country in conflict with another?" Valero asked after the announcement of the US veto. to Huawei, and has urged to act in the face of the rapid geopolitical changes in the world. "If we do not have a strong Europe, between the United States and China is complicated," Heras stressed the new heterogeneous supercomputer adapted to new requirements of users of supercomputers and with special emphasis on artificial intelligence.

Business fabric On the creation of its own European technology, Valero stressed that the MareNostrum 5 aims to create, not only 'hardware' - something that has claimed that they can do - but also 'software', applications and chips with which it emphasizes that It will be necessary to create a business fabric, which you see as a great opportunity. With the new supercomputer, they will work with a technology of five nanos, which represents the end of Moore's law: "We can not go further", said the scientist, supported by the rector of the UPC, Francesc Torres, who He has shown pride and has celebrated this leadership.

"Today is a great day for science, sometimes we talk a little, sometimes we talk more," remarked the director of the BSC, who insisted on the need to promote the Spanish network of supercomputing, adding up all the tools to make it possible, he said endorsed by Heras. A for the Marenostrum 6 "We are the Messi of supercomputing", highlighted Valero, happy of the institutional collaboration represented by the BSC, something that has also highlighted the Councilor Àngels Chacón.

"If this is a cathedral, you are the cardinal", joked Chacón pointing to Valero, who has received his words with a laugh, and the Secretary of State for Research has concluded the act with a bet on the MareNostrum 6.

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