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How a Supercomputer Beat the Scrap Heap and Lived On To Retire In Africa

Posted by Unknown on from the spread-the-computing dept.

New submitter jorge_salazar (3562633) writes Pieces of the decommissioned Ranger supercomputer, 40 racks in all, were shipped to researchers in South Africa, Tanzania, and Botswana to help seed their supercomputing aspirations. They say they'll need supercomputers to solve their growing science problems in astronomy, bioinformatics, climate modeling and more. Ranger's own beginnings were described by the co-founder of Sun Microsystems as a 'historic moment in petaflop computing."

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  1. Re:In an alternate universe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The remark of an idiot.

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    I'm not worthy.