Alejandro Soba – Fusion Group

MNHACK24: 6th MareNostrum Hackathon

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024

Between October 7 and 9, the 6^th MareNostrum Hackathon took place in the Auditorium of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Headquarters.

The members of the Fusion Group who belong to the EUROfusion Advance Computing Hub (ACH) attended this event to deploy, test, port, and optimize plasma fusion codes on the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer. With the assistance of an extraordinary team of mentors and experts, we worked together on the improvement of several codes assigned to our ACH. The group worked on ERO2, BIT1 and XTORK, sharing expertise, experiences and suggestions.

Workshop on Nuclear Fusion: initiatives towards DEMO

March 5, 2024

Presentation of the BSC Fusion Group in the CIEMAT workshop.

On February 29, in the CIEMAT headquarters in Madrid (Spain), a Workshop entitled “Fusión nuclear: iniciativas hacia DEMO” was organized by CIEMAT, CDTI, and Ineustar/Induciencia in close collaboration with IFMIF-DONES, UNED, University of Sevilla (US) and Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Alejandro Soba and Dani Gallart from our research group attended this event.

The main objectives of the workshop were to encourage public-private collaboration initiatives in the field, analyze Spain’s strengths in the different key technologies and discuss the plans for the future DEMO reactor.

Two new Master students have joined our group

February 13, 2024February 13, 2024

The year 2024 has started with the opportunity for two new Master students to carry out their MSc thesis research projects in our Fusion group. Their internships will last between six and eight months during which they will be able to have a first-hand experience with one of the most powerful supercomputers worldwide, the MareNostrum 5, in a hot timely topic such as nuclear fusion.

We are looking for engineers interested in high-performance computing sciences

November 22, 2023November 22, 2023

Our task is to help generate efficient simulations in HPC environments

We are looking for Research Engineers in Scientific Computing to join the growing team of the EUROfusion Advanced Computing Hub at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

The successful candidates will participate in cutting-edge European R&D activities related to the optimization and programming of codes devoted to simulation-based plasma physics science and fusion technology. They will become members of this reference performance group in an international working environment.

Disseminating our research in Fusion at the 16a Festa de la Ciència

June 19, 2023June 22, 2023

On Saturday, June 10, took place the 16a Festa de la ciència in the Rambla of Prim of Barcelona. More than 6000 assistants came to this science dissemination event organized by the Ajuntament of Barcelona and counted with 176 activities and engaged more than 150 city entities related to science and dissemination. As last year, our Fusion Group participated to disseminate Fusion technology among the event participants.

Are you interested in being part of a multidisciplinary team of excellence at international level?

January 13, 2023February 15, 2023

We are looking for Research Engineers in Scientific Computing to join the growing team of the EUROfusion Advanced Computing Hub at BSC.

The successful candidates will participate in cutting-edge European R&D activities related with the optimization and programming of codes devoted to simulated plasma physics science and fusion technology. They will become members of this reference performance group in an international working environment.