torre girona

Things are not always what they seem...





This is Torre Girona, home of the Barcelona Supercomputer Center.

source c&en blog

from c&en

In 2004, when the federal and local governments decided to fund the supercomputing center at the Technical University of Catalonia, no other buildings owned by the university had the right interior dimensions to accommodate 10,240 processors and their associated cooling units. Apart from using the chapel, the only other option was to construct a new building.

“We were pretty lucky it worked out this way,” said Oriol Riu, a computer scientist and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center tour guide. Riu told me the chapel had been a nun’s college up until the 1970s, after which it was used intermittently as an auditorium, exam room, and classroom.

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