Mateo Valero
Mateo Valero Cortés (* 1952 in Alfamén ) is a Spanish computer engineer. He is a professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and founder (2004) and director of the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC).
Valero studied electrical engineering (telecommunications) at the Technical University of Madrid with a degree in 1974 and then went to the UPC, where he received his doctorate in 1980 and where he received a full professorship in 1983.
He was visiting professor at ENSIMAG, the University of Grenoble and the University of California, Los Angeles .
At the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, he led the construction of the MareNostrum supercomputer, which is based on IBM Power PCs and reaches 63 teraflops and is installed in a converted church. The BSC was also involved in the development of the IBM cell processor.
From 1990 to 1995 he founded and directed the European Center for Parallel Computers in Barcelona (CEPBA) and from 2000 to 2004 he directed the CIRI (a research center of CEPBA and IBM). In 2004 he founded the BSC, which he heads, the national center for supercomputers in Spain.
In 2007 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award for his outstanding leadership role in setting up a research center for computer architecture with a worldwide reputation, for fundamental achievements in the field of vector computers and multithreading and for pioneering achievements in new methods for parallel computing at the instruction level . For 2015 he was awarded the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award .
In 1994 he was one of the founding members of the Royal Spanish Engineering Academy.
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- ↑ Laudation ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering basic new approaches to instruction-level parallelism .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valero, Mateo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alfamén |