astronomy

Mateo Valero

Mateo Valero is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mateo Valero rather than just read about it. In short: Mateo Valero Cortés is a Spanish computer architect. His research encompasses different concepts within the field of computer architecture, a discipline in which he has published more than 700 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books.

Key takeaways

Mateo Valero belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Mateo Valero to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Mateo Valero from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Mateo Valero Cortés is a Spanish computer architect. His research encompasses different concepts within the field of computer architecture, a discipline in which he has published more than 700 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books. Valero has received numerous awards, including the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 2007. As of 2024 he is the director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts the MareNostrum supercomputer.

Early life and education Mateo Valero Cortés is from Alfamén, Aragon, Spain. At a young age he went to Zaragoza and then Madrid to study, before settling permanently in Barcelona. Valero graduated in telecommunications engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 1974 and got his Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Career Valero has combined his academic work with establishing and managing centres for high-performance computing research and technology transfer to businesses.

Between 1990 and 1995, he first established and then directed the Barcelona European Parallelism Centre (CEPBA, after its initials in Spanish) to carry out fundamental and applied research in parallel computing. From 1995 to 2000, he was the director of C4, the Catalan Computing and Communications Centre, coordinating activities carried out by CEPBA and the Catalan Supercomputing Centre (CESCA, after its initials in Catalan). From October 2000 until 2004, he was the director of CIRI, the CEPBA-IBM Research Institute on parallel computers. Since May 2004 he has been the founder and director of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and as of 2024 remains director. At these centres he has worked to drive forward different supercomputing networks both nationally and internationally, such as the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES, after its initials in Spanish), the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the Latin American Supercomputing Network (RISC, after its initials in Spanish). In 2013 he won a European Research Council Advanced Grant to carry out the RoMoL project on new techniques to build multicore chips and the supercomputers of the future.

Recognition and honours

Individual awards 2024: Premio Innovación y Ciencia (Innovation and Science award) at the Premios Vanguardia 2020: AUTELSI 2020 annual award, organised by the Asociación Española de Usuarios de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (AUTELSI), which recognises excellence and contributions and commitment to information technology 2019: Cénits Award for Research Excellence, given by Extremadura Center for Research, Technological Innovation and Supercomputing to commemorate its 10th anniversary 2018: Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. This is the highest prize given by Mexican government to a non Mexican person. 2017: MareNostrum 4, chosen as the most beautiful data centre in the world. The award, organised by DCDnews, has been granted by popular vote. 2017: Charles Babbage Award (IEEE Computer Society), for "his contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building on incredibly productive European research environment" 2017: Recognition for his outstanding career in scientific and technological development, given by the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and by the national committee of the ISUM international congress. 2016: Creu de Sant Jordi award (Catalan Government) 2015: Seymour Cray Award (IEEE - Computer Society) for supercomputing "in recognition of seminal contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures" 2015: Innovative Businesses Forum Award in the Innovative Researcher category 2014: Award of Honour (Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association) 2013: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award "for extraordinary leadership of initiatives in high-performance computing research and education" 2009: Goode Award (IEEE - Computer Society), for his contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW architectures 2008: Featured in Hall of Fame (Innovate, Connect, Transform - ICT conference) 2007: Eckert–Mauchly Award (IEEE/ACM;), for "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" (the highest international honour in the field of computer architecture) 2006: National Research Award for contributions to scientific and technological progress in Catalonia (Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation 2006: Leonardo Torres Quevedo Spanish National Research Award for engineering research (Spanish Ministry for Education and Science) 2005: Research Achievements Career Award (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) 2005: Aritmel National Award –Spanish IT Engineer (Spanish Scientific and IT Society) 2004: Engineer of the Year Award (Spanish Telecommunication Engineers Association) 2001: Julio Rey Pastor Spanish National Research Award in Mathematics, Information and Communication Technology (Spanish Ministry for Education and Science) 1997: Rey Jaime I Award for fundamental research (Rey Jaime I Awards Foundation) 1996: Salvà i Campillo Award (Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association) 1994: Narcís Monturiol Award (Government of Catalonia)

Joint awards 2011: First national award for partnership between research centres and businesses, awarded to BSC and IBM for their long and fruitful research collaboration (Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation). 2011 and 2015: Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Award given to Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) 1994: Barcelona City Award in Technology for the work of CEPBA (Barcelona City Council) 1992: Fundación Universidad-Empresa Award for the university department with the best European research projects (Fundación Universidad-Empresa)

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mateo Valero

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mateo Valero claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mateo Valero before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mateo Valero ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mateo Valero

In research: Mateo Valero appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mateo Valero in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mateo Valero is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Computer engineers, Living people, People from the Province of Zaragoza, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mateo Valero outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Mateo Valero in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Mateo Valero means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Mateo Valero out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Mateo Valero matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Mateo Valero?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Mateo Valero.