News – Fusion Group

BSC Fusion Group Joins Fusion Panel at Cleantech Forum Europe

November 17, 2025

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).

MNHACK25: 7th MareNostrum Hackathon

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

From October 13 to 17, the 7^th MareNostrum Hackathon took place at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) headquarters, Spain. This annual event, organized by BSC, once again brought together HPC developers and researchers with the aim of helping participants to improve their applications with the guidance of expert mentors.

Visit of BSC team to ITER

October 10, 2025

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.

My Summer Internship at BSC

September 10, 2025

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.

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

August 19, 2025August 29, 2025

From July 14^th to 18^th, 2025, the 15^th 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.

BSCBIT team participates at the CINECA Open Hackathon

July 30, 2025

From June 24 to July 03, our research group participated in the CINECA Open Hackathon with the team BSCBIT, composed of Xavier Sáez, Eduardo Cabrera and Alejandro Soba.

The CINECA Open Hackathon was a virtual multi-day event co-organized by NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization. Launched in 2014, these hackathons are designed to help scientists and developers accelerate and optimise computational codes on GPUs with the support of expert mentors.