Hurricane in the Server Room

Our new toy arrived, with twelve cores, four GTX580 GPUs, four
terabyte hard disk and 24 Gigabytes RAM. The thing looks quite
impressive from the inside:

Note the four GPUs on the left hand side and the vertical stack of
fans in the center. Together with the CPU fans above the GPUs it is
impossible to sit next to this machine and think clearly. It blows
your head off, or at least it sounds as if it would. Even when almost
unused, this machine produced so much heat our server room could not
discharge the heat anymore. Amazing.

If you ever wondered: A current Ubuntu Server version seems to have no
problems with this specification.