In this episode of Scaling Intelligence, we speak with Rosa Badia, Director of the HPC Software Research Area at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), live from SC25.

Rosa discusses her new leadership role overseeing BSC’s HPC software research, how the center is organizing work across HPC, AI, and hardware, and what she’s seeing as AI rapidly reshapes supercomputing. We explore BSC’s efforts in large language models, AI-driven digital twins, and hybrid HPC–AI and HPC–quantum workflows, as well as its role as a host for European AI Factories.

We also talk about why SC remains such a critical meeting point for the community, the challenges ahead as new technologies scale, and BSC’s strategic work on open RISC-V–based architectures and the software stack behind future systems like MareNostrum 6.

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