Europe’s fastest supercomputer, an IBM capable of making 40 trillion calculations per second, was booted up for the first time yesterday in a chapel [italics mine] of the Polytechnical University in Barcelona, Spain
A beleaguered American atheist, I was startled by this picture and caption when I came across it in Newsday this morning (I couldn’t find it on their on-line edition). I showed it to Barry who said, “This is not your father’s Spain,” and then he went on with something about using churches more productively, for performances, galleries or . . . computers.