For example, a supercomputer is like from the inside

barcelona - The former chapel Torre Girona has been given a second life in 2005 by the research center Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It houses the Mare Nostrum 3, one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe.

Where ever prayed, is now under the stained-glass windows to find a large glass box in which many servers are hard at work. The Mare Nostrum has 3 3. 056 computer clusters that keep the supercomputer 115.5 terabytes of memory and a hard disk 3 Petabytes.

But that is for the institute not enough. This year still need the Mare Nostrum 4 make its debut. This is 12.4 times faster than its older brother.