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.
The most beautiful supercomputer in the world – Link.
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Not the first church to be used for computers…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shalosophy/2491275/
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
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. . .