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First Petaflop Supercomputer To Shut Down

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long-farewell-auf-weidersehen-goodbye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In 2008 Roadrunner was the world's fastest supercomputer. Now that the first system to break the petaflop barrier has lost a step on today's leaders it will be shut down and dismantled. In its five years of operation, the Roadrunner was the 'workhorse' behind the National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, providing key computer simulations for the Stockpile Stewardship Program."

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  1. Whiners by methano · · Score: -1, Troll

    I bought my aluminum iMac back in 2007 and it works just fine, though I wouldn't mind an upgrade. What happened to that damn sequester?

    On another note, can you really use a computer to accurately calculate how fast a nuclear arsenal will deteriorate? I didn't think so.