Maximum PC: Even supercomputers sometimes have relatively short lifespans. So it is with Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the petaflop barrier by posting better than 1 million billion calculations per second five years ago. Back then, it was the world's fastest supercomputer, and scientists used it to gain a better understanding of energy flow in nuclear weapons and its relation to weapon yield.
The computer will eventually be outfitted with 16,000 GPUs.
Hackers attack the supercomputers of the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, and "infections" included cryptocurrency-mining spyware.
This is what supercomputers were built for.
kind of sad
so what will they do with all these parts.
its essentially still usable. and besides the energy consumption its still faster than anything normal people can get their hands on.