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.
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.
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.
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.
From June 30th to July 4th, Hernán Domingo attended the 14th International ITER School on Integrated Modelling in Magnetic Fusion Plasmas, held in Aix-en-Provence, France. The event, organized primarily by Aix-Marseille University, CEA and ITER Organization , brought together over 200 participants from diverse backgrounds, all sharing a common eagerness to learn more about nuclear fusion and integrated modelling.
Our PhD student, Hernán, had the opportunity to present a poster on Alya4fusion, our latest project focused on nuclear fusion reactor simulation and integrated modelling.
The 25th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas took place from 19 to 22 May 2025 and attracted more than 130 participants. Our group leader, Mervi Mantsinen, delivered an invited talk at this conference reviewing key milestones from four decades of Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) physics on the Joint European Torus (JET), highlighting its significant contributions to fusion research and implications for future reactors.
JET, Europe’s leading tokamak device, has achieved exceptional performance surpassing its design specifications, operating with magnetic fields of up to 4 T, plasma currents of 7 MA, and auxiliary heating powers totalling 37 MW. Its versatile ICRF system, with a frequency range of 25–56 MHz, has enabled a wide array of heating and current drive experiments.