The BSC and MareNostrum, which has a calculating capacity of 94.21 teraflops (94.21 trillion operations per second) and has 10,240 processors, have helped numerous projects in different scientific areas. Some of these have helped to improve the design of drugs, to predict air quality in the Iberian Peninsula ,to study the impact and consequences of climate change on a European scale, to simulate the formation of the Universe, to study aeroplane wing turbulences and to optimise and scale tools for parallel applications in supercomputers like MareNostrum.
All these projects have achieved results that have advanced research on a world level. In addition, MareNostrum could also be a useful tool for private companies such as Airbus, Gas Natural, IBM, Microsoft, Repsol YPF or Sun.
In fact, one of the most interesting projects being carried out with the BSC supercomputer is being conducted with Repsol YPF. The project is working on the development of software to improve the quality of information obtained when ground analyses are conducted using seismic images, which will improve the multinational's capacity to locate new hydrocarbon reserves and more efficiently exploit those that are already in operation.

This year one of the most emblematic BSC projects is MareIncognito, where scientists in the field of computer science together with IBM experts are investigating the supercomputer of the future, using CELL processors like those used in Playstation 3.
With the increase in MareNostrum's capacity in 2006 and the creation of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) – which consists of a distributed infrastructure of supercomputers across the country – the huge demand from the scientific community for supercomputing is being met. The initial nodes are located at the BSC (RES's coordinator), at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute and at the universities of Cantabria , Valencia , Malaga and Saragossa

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