World’s Most Beautiful Supercomputer

• jack.wh
  December 16th, 2007 at 9:54 am

  Isn’t Mare Nostrum a “sea” on the moon?

• jack.wh
  December 16th, 2007 at 10:00 am

  Mare Nostrum translates from Latin to english as “our sea”. And I swear one of the Mare’s on the moon is called that.

• Sid Morrison
  December 16th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

  Reminds me much of the “computing center” at my alma mater:
  http://www.rpi.edu/about/campustour/vcc/index.html

  It had formerly been a large stone chapel when that part of the campus was part of an adjacent seminary. It always struck me a bit ironic that the geeks at a technical school now “pay worship” to the computer housed therein.

• victor
  December 16th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

  Mare Nostrum is indeed “our sea”, and it was the name given to the Mediterranean sea during the roman and bizantine periods. Therefore, it was considered appropriate for a supercomputer in a city on the Mediterranean coast.

• Alex
  December 16th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

  Ah, Latin! I thought it sounded like the nostril of a female horse.

• ted
  December 16th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

  It is kinda sci-fi when former chapels become altars of technology.

• Nicholas Dollak
  December 16th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

  A supercomputer in a chapel…

  Programmer to omniscient supercomputer: Is there a God?

  Supercomputer: There is now.

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