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The following pictures are available for download and use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Supercomputers

1. Assembling of the supercomputer Monte Rosa in Lugano (Picture: CSCS)
2. Assembling of the supercomputer Monte Rosa in Lugano (Picture: CSCS)
3. Assembling of the supercomputer Monte Rosa in Lugano (Picture: CSCS)
4. Side-view of the supercomputer Monte Rosa (Picture: Humus)
5. Cray Supercomputers from the side (Picture: Humus)
6. Islands filled with HW in the computer room (Picture: Humus)
7. Monte Lema and Albis (r), the dedicated supercomputers of MeteoSwiss and the Library (l) (Picture: Humus)
8. Working on Todi and Matterhorn (Picture: Humus)
9. Working on Todi and Matterhorn (Picture: Humus)
10. Front-view of the supercomputer Piz Daint (Picture: CSCS)
11. Back-view of the supercomputer Piz Daint (Picture: CSCS)
12. A system engineer working on the supercomputer Piz Daint (Picture: CSCS)

Outside Views

1. The office block with its distinctive double layered glass facade. (Picture: Marco Carocari)
2. The office building (left) and part of the computer building (right). (Picture: CSCS)
3. South-East view of the office building (right) and the whole computer building (left). (Picture: CSCS)
4. The office building (right) is connected on the Northern side to the computer building (left) by a bridge and an underground tunnel. (Picture: CSCS)
5. Main entrance in the office building. (Picture: CSCS)
6. The office building (right) from above with a glimpse into the computer building (left). (Picture: CSCS)
7. The bridge connecting office and computer buildings. (Picture: CSCS)
8. South-West view of the computer building (left) and the office building (right). (Picture: CSCS)
9. The office building (right), the computer building (left) and the bridge in between. (Picture: CSCS)
10. New view of the main entrance in the office building (Picture: Humus)

Computer Building

1. Resource deck, installation deck, machine room. (Picture: Marco Carocari)
2. Installation deck (Picture: Marco Carocari)
3. Machine room before the moving of the supercomputers (Picture: Marco Carocari)
4. Rendering of the machine room with supercomputers in the foreground
   and cooling islands for additional hardware in the background.
5. Rendering of a cooling island.

Pumping Station

1. In the labyrinth of the pumping station: five metres beneath the lawns of Parco Ciani, over 700 litres of water per second are pumped out of Lake Lugano. (Picture: Marco Carocari)
2. In the labyrinth of the pumping station: five metres beneath the lawns of Parco Ciani, over 700 litres of water per second are pumped out of Lake Lugano. (Picture: Marco Carocari)
3. In the labyrinth of the pumping station: five metres beneath the lawns of Parco Ciani, over 700 litres of water per second are pumped out of Lake Lugano. (Picture: Marco Carocari)
4. The suction strainers for the lake water pipe, just before they were lowered 45 metres into Lake Lugano. (Picture: CSCS)
5. The suction strainers for the lake water pipe, just before they were lowered 45 metres into Lake Lugano. (Picture: CSCS)
6. Only a trapdoor indicates the existence of the pumping station below the surface of Parco Ciani to visitors. (Picture CSCS)

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