BSC Fusion Group Joins Fusion Panel at Cleantech Forum Europe

The session “Integrating Fusion into the EU Energy Roadmap” is starting at the Cleantech Forum Europe 2025 in Sitges, Spain with the introduction by the session organizer Zainab Gilani.

On 12 November 2025, BSC’s Fusion Group participated in a high-level panel discussion at the Cleantech Forum Europe 2025 in Sitges, Spain. The session, titled “Integrating Fusion into the EU Energy Roadmap,” brought together leading voices from research, industry, and policy to discuss Europe’s evolving role in the global fusion energy landscape.

The panel was moderated by Zainab Gilani (Cleantech Group) and included Mervi Mantsinen (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Richard Kembleton (Gauss Fusion), and Pierre-Yves Chaffard (Fusion for Energy).

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Visit of BSC team to ITER

The BSC team visiting ITER. From left to right: D. Gallart, M. Mantsinen, J. M. Cela, F. Cucchietti, F. Cipolletta, T. Andrade. Photo taken by C. Moutte (ITER).

On October 2, a group from the Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (CASE) department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) visited the ITER Organisation in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France. The group included CASE director J. M. Cela; Fusion group members M. Mantsinen, D. Gallart and F. Cipolletta; and Data Pre & Post Processing group members F. Cucchietti and T. Andrade.

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My Summer Internship at BSC

Hello! My name is Raquel Trull Báguena, an undergraduate student at UPC in Mathematics and Engineering Physics. For the last nine weeks, I have participated in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) International Summer HPC Internship Programme within the Fusion group. They welcomed me with open arms, and I would like to share my experience of my work this summer.

I have been working under the mentorship of Alejandro Soba and Eduardo Cabrera, to whom I could not be more grateful. From the very first day, they made sure I was accompanied throughout this whole process, solving my every doubt and maintaining a fun environment.

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Attending PUMPS+AI 2025: Advancing Skills in Massively Parallel Programming and AI

From July 14th to 18th, 2025, the 15th ACM Europe Summer School on Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems + Artificial Intelligence (PUMPS+AI) took place at UPC Campus Nord in Barcelona. This prestigious event brought together researchers, graduate students, and instructors from around the world to explore the latest advances in massively parallel computing and artificial intelligence (AI).

M. Augusto Maidana Silanes, member of the Fusion Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), had the opportunity to attend this year’s edition. The school provided an exceptional environment to gain both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in programming for many-core processors and GPU accelerators, with a special emphasis on AI applications.

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Alya4Fusion continues to evolve: new paper with multiphysics developments

BSC’s Fusion Group has published a new article in the Fusion Science and Technology journal, entitled “Application and coupling of NEUTRO, a deterministic neutron transport solver for fusion applications in the Alya multiphysics environment”.

This work represents a significant milestone in our mission to develop comprehensive simulation tools for fusion reactor analysis. The article presents new results obtained using NEUTRO, the neutronics module of Alya, a massively parallel finite element framework created at BSC. This development is carried out within the Alya4Fusion initiative and continues previous work, which can be found in our blog (here and here).

For the first time, we have successfully demonstrated the coupling of three physics modules within Alya in the context of nuclear fusion: NEUTRO for neutron transport, TEMPER for heat transfer, and NASTIN for fluid dynamics. This integrated approach enables us to simulate the complex interplay between neutron radiation, heat deposition, and coolant circulation in fusion reactor components within a single computational framework.

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