World's Most Beautiful Supercomputer - Neatorama

This amazing piece of technology is installed in a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

It's called "MareNostrum" and it is currently the largest supercomputer in Europe and the 9th largest in the world.

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Isn't Mare Nostrum a "sea" on the moon?

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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A supercomputer in a chapel...

Programmer to omniscient supercomputer: Is there a God?

Supercomputer: There is now.

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