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Via “Most Powerful Supercomputers: Brains and Beauty”, Dark Roasted Blend:

MareNostrum - a perfect combination of beauty as well as brains

What’s really interesting about the new generation of super machines is not that they’re smart — which they most definitely are — but how, well, sexy they’ve gotten.

Just take a look at MareNostrum, which is a perfect combination of beauty as well as brains. Sure, the monster machine that lives in a deconsecrated chapel in Barceolona, might be only (ahem) the 8th most powerful of its super-smart digital kin, but it ‘s certainly a star in the looks department: a series of imposing monoliths set inside a climate-controlled glass room, a perfect juxtaposition between its 21st century mind and the ancient architecture of the chapel. It’s been used for everything from climate modeling to helping decipher the human genome — all the while looking fantastic as it works.

From the outside: the Torre Girona chapel -



Inside: human cutting-edge technoogy meets the deep reverence of spiritual architecture -






(images credit: Ronald Halbe and Simon Norfolk)

The supercomputer consists of 2560 JS21 blade computing nodes, each with 2 dual-core IBM 64-bit PowerPC 970MP processors running at 2.3 GHz for 10240 CPUs in total.It has 20 TB of RAM and 280 TB of external disk storage for more persistent storage.

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