Introduction

The European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA) belongs to the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and officially started its activities in October 1991. CEPBA integrated the experiences in parallel computing of the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) with the high-performance computational requirements of other Departments such us Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Civil Engineering (RME), Computer Systems and Languages (LSI), Nuclear Physics and Engineering (FEN) and Applied Physics (FA).

CEPBA was created by initiative of the Ministry of Education and sponsored with economic funding from the Spanish CICYT (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología) and from the Catalan CIRIT (Comissió Interdepartamental de Recerca i Innovació Tecnològica).

Since October 1995, CEPBA activities have been coordinated together with those of the CESCA (Supercomputing Center of Catalonia) throughout the (Computing and Communications Center of Catalonia) founded by the CIRIT, Fundació Catalana per la Recerca and UPC.