MareNostrum and quantum computing - bits, qubits and 314 petaflops
Durada: 26 min
01/03/2025
Located at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, MareNostrum 5 is part of a network of European supercomputers and is used to conduct research in fields such as biomedicine, geophysics, atmosphere, energy, society and economy, providing valuable data to the international scientific community. José María Cela Espín, the director of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre, shows us around the chapel Torre Girona where the MareNostrum supercomputer is installed. We also talk to Jan Nogué, a quantum engineer from Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech responsible building the groundbreaking computer at BSC.This week's Catalan phrase is 'Aquí hi ha gat amagat!' which translates literally as 'There is a cat shut in here!'. It is used to express suspicion that there is more to something than meets the eye¿ Rather like the case of Schrödinger's cat, which can be simultaneously alive and dead, or that of qubits, the unit of measurement used in quantum computing.