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In Barcelona, supercomputer racks stand under the stone arches of a former chapel. In other machine rooms, rows of cabinets fill the space from end to end. These photos show what landmark supercomputers looked like in place, from early parallel systems to the first machines to cross the exascale threshold.

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MareNostrum 4
MareNostrum 4: Racks of servers stand inside a glass enclosure under the stone arches of Barcelona’s Torre Girona chapel…
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JUPITER
JUPITER: Patterned silver panels line a narrow aisle at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. JUPITER was the first…
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Fugaku
Fugaku: The rows of cabinets in Kobe, Japan, hold processors designed to handle a wide range of scientific workloads…
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Aurora
Aurora: Rows of cabinets hold the Intel processors and graphics accelerators behind Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory…
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Frontier
Frontier: Rows of Frontier cabinets fill this hall at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In 2022, Frontier became…
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El Capitan
El Capitan: A Yosemite panorama stretches across El Capitan’s cabinets at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in…
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Summit
Summit: The rows of black cabinets housed an IBM system with graphics processors that carried out much of the heavy…
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Titan
Titan: Oak Ridge’s Titan combined general-purpose processors and graphics processors inside its cabinets. It preceded…
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Pleiades
Pleiades: NASA photographed these rows of Pleiades racks at its Ames Research Center in California in 2008. Researchers…
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IBM Blue Gene/P
IBM Blue Gene/P: Long rows of blue and black cabinets held the Blue Gene/P installation at Argonne National Laboratory in…
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Sunway TaihuLight
Sunway TaihuLight: The machine hall at China’s National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi held Sunway TaihuLight. Its locally…
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LUMI
LUMI: The cabinets stand in a data center built at a former paper mill in Kajaani, Finland. LUMI’s cooling system recovers…
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Perlmutter
Perlmutter: Colorful graphics cover the first set of Perlmutter cabinets at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The…
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Jaguar
Jaguar: The cabinets at Oak Ridge housed a Cray supercomputer that topped the TOP500 in 2009. Oak Ridge later upgraded…
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K Computer
K Computer: These cabinets in Kobe housed the K computer, Fugaku’s predecessor at RIKEN. Its name refers to kei, the…
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Earth Simulator
Earth Simulator: The original Earth Simulator filled its machine hall at JAMSTEC in Yokohama. Its designers built it to…
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Blue Waters
Blue Waters occupied a machine hall at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Scientists used it to tackle…
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Alps
Alps: Rows of cabinets in Lugano, Switzerland, house the Alps supercomputer. Its hardware can be divided into virtual…
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Columbia
Columbia: The racks of NASA’s Columbia filled part of the Ames computing center in California. The system began operating…
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Sierra
Sierra: These cabinets held Sierra at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Its IBM processors worked…

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