Flo
Elise 
periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see
someone should host a fediverse instance in there
Frederic@me "Fedi Nostrum"
Abhijith ✔
Tashte
amrtf 
@me I’ve been there a few years ago and it’s impressive, but I think they’re moving the new generation MareNostrum to another place.
Èlia 🌸🦊
astrid 🍥 🏳️⚧️
fungus (oracle of tree logs)
Ricardus@me Wow. That is WILD.
diyelectromusic@me Is anyone else thinking of this...?
From: https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/colossus-the-forbin-project-1969.htm
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3@diyelectromusic @me yes. Great movie. Watched it again last night.
Resistor McResistanceFace"add a few stock images of Tom Hanks and we have sequel" - Netflix
zl2tod
lolcatMy all-time fave.
Beautiful to look at. Also, was one of the last big publicly-accessible systems running Myrinet. The University of Washington "Hyak" system retired its last Myrinet nodes sometime around 2021.
Infiniband clearly has its place, but its TCP/IP performance is/was abysmal. In some general purpose HPC systems, that's important. Because Myrinet was sockets based, instead of RDMA, it handled IP just fine.
Weird HPC history no one asked for...
Steve's Place@me It's a different form of worship, that's all.
José M. Arnesto 🌻@me HAD a supercomputer inside a church. Sorry to disappoint you, but Marenostrum 4 (the one in your pic) was shut down about a year ago. The current generation (Marenostrum 5) is in a different location: https://www.bsc.es/news/bsc-news/european-supercomputer-marenostrum-5-starts-bsc
shaunOur Lady of Perpetual Silicon
Brodie Robertson@me What's the story behind that?
@BrodieOnLinux well, I guess it just was in the university campus, it wasn't being used... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
PulkoMandy@BrodieOnLinux @me it's a research lab in an university. They were looking for space to set up a supercomputer and the building next to them was an unused church, so they just set it up there.
When I visited it a few yearsago, they were setting up a newer, larger room for a new version of the supercomputer. I don't know what will happen to the old one.
mmu_man@pulkomandy … no, you don't have the room for it! 😛
@mmu_man @BrodieOnLinux @me certainly not, but if they removed the computer and are willing to rent the place, it's perfect for installing supervillain headquarters there!
Kevin Karhan 
@pulkomandy @mmu_man @BrodieOnLinux @me Allegedly some shows already did that...
- I hope someone does a C&C Series...
Cuz that thing could make a good Nod Temple...
ScriptFanix💍
Kenneth Hoste
Arlon
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@me Also terrifying, tbh. What a metaphor.
Kellic Tiger 
@me I think I saw this in blade 😁
Шуро@me For some reason I get Fallout universe vibes.
Matthew Malthouse
Marina Aísa@me it was called Marenostrum 4 but they turned it off one year ago to move it to a new and bigger location as Marenostrum 5 🥲
Troed Sångberg@me I've read this sci-fi short :P
"... there is now".
jack@me Now I'm wondering if there's anywhere where a church meets in a computer / serverroom
PeterWell, they have to run Heaven 1.2, the simulation, somewhere, don't they? 😉
🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉
Aurora 🐌And we still don't know how much energy and water they use in this Data Center.
Data Center in beautiful spaces are still polluting Data Centers.
@CorioPsicologia I really think you are misinterpreting what this device is used for
@me No, entiendo perfectamente lo que es el Supercomputing Center.
Que soy la portavoz de @tunubesecamirio , y doy centenares de charlas sobre impacto ecológico de Centros de Datos. Y justo el ejemplo de ese, con su emplazamiento bonito, es lo que nos lo querían poner de contraejemplo de : se pueden hacer Centros de Datos de otra manera.
Pero seguimos sin saber publicamente cuanto gasta de energía y agua. Como te pueden confirmar todas las investigadoras y periodistas especializados.
boggitsNot the only DC in a church (it's below the glass floor in this photo) - this is AQL in Leeds
Mal 🇿🇦🏳️🌈🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇸🇪@me That reminds me of an old RPG I used to play called TORG. One of its more unique worlds was called the Cyberpapacy. It was exactly what it sounds like.
jon r@me
Hope that hosts a European copy of the Internet Archive. Would be too fitting.
Hope that hosts a European copy of the Internet Archive. Would be too fitting.
Andrew@me It needs to be the Femputer.
halcy 
@me hitman level looking place
LR
Mark Shane Hayden@me wait "the Cathedral and the Bazaar" wasn't just a metaphor?
Light
Daniel Cid
Tono CarbajoLo estuve visitando hace un par de mese, cuando lo montaban. Simbólicamente es brutal. Además tenian ouesta música de ambiente gregoriana
Ted Spence@me no matter how much time I spend in Barcelona there’s still more beautiful things to see. Probably the best city in the world. I feel so bad for the people who live there and are drowning in tourists
Martin Marconcini@me can it run Doom though?
slowtiger@me "Der große summende Gott", literally "the big humming god", german title for "Fistful of Digits" by Christopher Hodder-Williams.
Leon Cowle@me @malmorrow Intelligent Design, you say? How about Artificial Intelligent Design!
2xfo@me
I'm curious to hear the sound of computer fan white noise in this decidedly resonant chamber
I'm curious to hear the sound of computer fan white noise in this decidedly resonant chamber
Frik 🏳️🌈🎗️@me oh hey I work there! Sadly there's only two barely-functioning quantum computers now in there, they were inaugurated just two weeks ago. The actual barely-functioning supercomputer MN5 is now just underground in the new building next door.
We're planning on setting up a few more quantums and yet another supercomputer for AI research in the empty space in the chapel, both as part of some EU programs, but god knows when.
finagle@me Cool! Have you seen the church building that the Internet Archive is in now? Brewster Kahle said he bought it because it matched the company logo lol
Otávio M. Pinheiro@me and Down Brown wrote a book (Origin) featuring it!