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The tri-labs have a rotating schedule for acquiring new machines, that include capacity and capability classes (the later being RR). The last time I was in the

The tri-labs have a rotating schedule for acquiring new machines, that include capacity and capability classes (the later being RR). The last time I was in the computing center at LANL the computing floor was quite packed. So, regardless of the claims made in the article for disposal reasons, there are other issues such as total machine weight, cooling requirements (which dominate), making room for new machines, etc... I do not know if RR will be physically shredded, but I'm hoping that it is retired to the brand-new PRObE (http://nmc-probe.org/ http://nmc-probe.org/) computing center where RR would be available for use by academic researchers.

fintler 14y ago
PRObE will probably get a chunk of it, but they also have power limitations. Basically every piece of the machine has already been given to some researcher or another for some purpose -- there's a bit of a waiting list at the moment. The hard drives will probably be sent to a military base to be melted down, I don't think they risk shredding them nowadays. The hardware that doesn't store data will probably be kept intact for quite some time. Since Roadrunner takes up about 1/3 of the Metropolis datacenter, getting rid of it leaves some room for the 2015 "Trinity" machine (assuming LANL hosts it).