Eleventh European Big Data Management & Analytics Summer School (eBISS 2023)

The Summer School will take place in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), one of the strongest universities in Spain, specialised in the fields of engineering, science, and architecture. UPC has about 27,000 students, including bachelor, master and doctorate, and about 3,000 teaching and research staff. The university is distributed over eight campuses, three of them in Barcelona. The main one, Campus Nord, is where the Summer School will take place.

Campus Nord is located in the east of Barcelona as is accessible by metro lines L3 (Palau Reial station) and L9 (Zona Universitaria station).

The Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB) is the school in charge of the Computer Science studies. Currently, it has about 2,000 bachelor and master students (PhD students are associated to the University departments). The FIB is located in Campus Nord, and so are the main departments involved in Computer Science education and research: the Department of Computer Architecture and the Department of Computer Science. As shown in the following map the campus is an array of buildings where the rows are denoted by letters A, B, C, D and the columns are denoted by numbers from 1 to 6. The lectures of the Summer School will be held in the Aula Master, which is located at the building A3.

The campus also includes the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which manages MareNostrum, located at the Torre Girona chapel, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and, according to IEEE Spectrum, the world’s most beautiful computing machine.

Internet access

The UPC is part of eduroam, so Summer School attendees will be able to use their university accounts for Internet access. For those that do not have access to eduroam, they can get Internet access through the UPCGuest network.