Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) is a research center active in high-performance computing, atmospheric modeling, and processor design/verification. Its documented activities include the MONARCH chemical weather prediction system with the CAMP chemistry solver, the Makinote FPGA-based emulation cluster for pre-silicon emulation of RISC-V designs, and multicore RISC-V verification under the Barcelona Zettascale Lab (BZL) project.

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) is a research institution whose published work spans atmospheric chemistry modeling, FPGA-based hardware emulation, and functional verification of RISC-V multicore systems. Its outputs include software packages, hardware platforms, and verification methodologies that have been evaluated against published benchmarks.

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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center authors work on the BZL (Barcelona Zettascale Lab) project.

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[1] BSC develops the MONARCH chemical weather prediction system, which integrates the CAMP package for solving gas- and aerosol-phase chemical processes as a single coupled system. Adapting Atmospheric Chemistry Components for Efficient GPU Accelerators

[2] A BSC strategy of simultaneously solving multiple chemical-mechanism instances (grid-cells) achieves up to 9x speedup with thousands of cells. Adapting Atmospheric Chemistry Components for Efficient GPU Accelerators

[3] A GPU implementation of CAMP's most time-consuming function achieves up to 1.2x speedup over CPU, with memory-access optimization raising the GPU speedup to 1.7x. Adapting Atmospheric Chemistry Components for Efficient GPU Accelerators

[4] Makinote is an FPGA-based cluster hosted at BSC-CNS composed of 96 AMD/Xilinx Alveo U55c FPGAs, capable of emulating designs up to 750M ASIC gates. Makinote: An FPGA-Based HW/SW Platform for Pre-Silicon Emulation of RISC-V Designs

[5] The Makinote FPGA shell abstracts connectivity to PCIe Gen4, DDR4, HBM, and 10G/100G Ethernet, and ships RISC-V-specific drivers. Makinote: An FPGA-Based HW/SW Platform for Pre-Silicon Emulation of RISC-V Designs

[6] Running an HPC Challenge application on 32 Makinote FPGAs delivered an 8x performance improvement over a single FPGA. Makinote: An FPGA-Based HW/SW Platform for Pre-Silicon Emulation of RISC-V Designs

[7] BSC's RISC-V multicore verification work was performed as part of the Barcelona Zettascale Lab (BZL) project. Verification of a RISC-V system with multiple cores

[8] BSC's verification methodology uses UVM with Spike ISS as a reference model, drawing on riscv-tests, the compliance suite, and riscv-dv-generated random binaries, supported by functional and code coverage analysis. Verification of a RISC-V system with multiple cores

[9] BSC built reusable UVM testbenches with dedicated agents for complete, interrupt, D-cache, and I-cache interfaces, using a Spike-based scoreboard for DUT comparison and end-of-test signaling via a designated memory write. Verification of a RISC-V system with multiple cores