The Research Center for Computational Simulation (CCS) emerges to efficiently address these expectations, and to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary international research in a very dynamic area. Given the multidisciplinary and evolving nature of computational simulation-based science and engineering we envision the need to group these common research areas in one Center. Since January 2015, CCS is the home of several research groups of different universities in Madrid: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). This increases the ability to adapt and meet the needs of a rapidly changing world of research and applications that is enabled by new computers, communications and algorithms.