Short life span, former Super king, IBM, the official retirement of the Cuckoo

Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13840.html "> supercomputers, which have been put into a lot of money and energy, actually have a short lifespan. Now a textbook example is in sight. Supercomputer IBM, with 116,640 core computing cores, has been in retirement for 5 years only at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, USA.

But it doesn't have to be too sad, with the Opteron processor and the cell processor of the IBM Walking cuckoo in these 5 years or for scientific research has made a great contribution to the people to study aids, Nano-ray and other fields of powerful weapons. Prior to being dismantled, the scientists conducted a one-month study of memory compression in the IBM's Cuckoo operating system.

At present, the cuckoo has been replaced by a more performance and greener competitor like Cray Titan, which will eventually become a bunch of incredibly heavy electronic waste.