Mateo Valero

Mateo Valero Cortés ( born 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 the completion in 1974 and then went to the UPC, where he received his doctorate in 1980 and 1983 where he received a full professorship.

He was visiting professor at the ENSIMAG, the University of Grenoble and the University of California, Los Angeles.

At the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, he directed the construction of the Mare Nostrum supercomputer based on IBM Power PC and is reached 63 teraflops and installed in a converted church. The BSC was also involved in the development of the Cell processor from IBM.

1990 to 1995 he founded and led the European center for parallel computers in Barcelona ( CEPBA ) and 2000 to 2004, he headed the CIRI ( a research center of CEPBA and IBM). In 2004 he founded the BSC led by him, the national center for supercomputing in Spain.

In 2007 he received the Eckert - Mauchly Award for his outstanding leadership role in building a world- acclaimed research center for computer architecture for basic services in the field vector computer and multi-threading and for pioneering new methods for parallel computing on instruction level.

In 1994 he was one of the founding members of the Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering.