Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona Supercomputing Center–Centro Nacional de Supercomputación is a public research consortium in Barcelona. It develops language models and coordinates ALIA, Spain's public programme for AI resources in Spanish and co-official languages. Its role includes model training and research, as well as operation of the computing systems used for that work.
Company & leadership
- Founding institutions
- Spain's Ministry of Education and Science, the Government of Catalonia and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
- Institutional form
- Public consortium; the Spanish state administration, Government of Catalonia and UPC remain the financing partners named in the 2025 government notice.
- Director
- Mateo Valero Cortés. His appointment was renewed on 25 February 2025; an official notice published in January 2026 also identifies him as director.
- Model research unit
- Language Technologies Laboratory at BSC; the official releases identify BSC's language and speech teams.
