Looking like an alien ship arriving, even the air conditioning in this computer is, to say the least, eye-catching. And massive.
It's not just the computers and the computer room at the LRZ that exist on a large scale. So do all the ancillary systems that are needed to look after a large and expensive supercomputer. Most of these systems run underneath the computers, apart from the air-conditioning outlets which sit below and just above the roof of the centre.
These systems certainly work. As you walk around the centre you quickly gain a new understanding of the term "ambient temperature". The environment is perfectly ambient, neither hot nor cold, moist or too dry. It would be a very comfortable place to work, except no humans work here. The perfect environment is there for the benefit of the systems alone and it appears that they thrive on it.
