The most beautiful supercomputer in the world

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/08/28 @ 6:00 am
Category Art & Design, Computers & Mobile

Josh Simon’s over at the Sun blog(s) has a great set of photos from a supercomputer in an chapel!

With my supercomputer-as-art background from Thinking Machines, I’m perhaps pre-disposed to appreciate nicely done computers and computer installations. I was blown away when I saw the photos below of MareNostrum, currently the 9th largest supercomputer in the world and the largest in Europe, which is installed in a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Wow.

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3 Responses to The most beautiful supercomputer in the world

WmD on August 28th, 2007 at 9:29 am said:

Not the first church to be used for computers…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shalosophy/2491275/

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kazanjig on August 28th, 2007 at 10:30 am said:

As a Boston College alumnus, I need to point out the BC moved its Data Center to St. Clement’s Chapel at the former archdiocese of Boston campus. The data center is now guarded by a stained-glass window of St. Isidore, the patron saint of the internet.

Links:
ITS Data Center Move
Ars Technica article
Boston Globe article
Movie of the move

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gearjunkie on August 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pm said:

I’m glad to see somebody beat me to it, I went to RPI, and that was one of the coolest places on campus. Learning CAD in a computer lab with a 12 foot diameter stained glass window about 30 feet above you gave you an entirely new element. . .

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