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.
Sources
- BOE: 2005 agreement establishing BSC-CNS
- Spanish Ministry of Finance: BSC consortium financing, September 2025
- BOE: Mateo Valero's 2025 appointment renewal
- BOE: BSC director and registered location, January 2026
- ALIA: public programme, coordination and model resources
- Spanish government: first ALIA releases, January 2025
- BSC authors: Salamandra Technical Report
- BSC Language Technologies Laboratory: official model catalog