The Most Beautiful Supercomputer in the World

MareNostrum, is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe, which is installed in a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). It was presented by IBM and María Jesús San Segundo, the Spanish Minister of Education and Science. 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.
MareNostrum's Myrinet interconnect fabric requires four cabinets. Myricom did a nice job of reducing the cable count as much as they...
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