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Solve : 'Petaflop' supercomputer is decommissioned?

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A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

The machine was the first to operate at "petaflop pace" - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second - when it launched in 2008.

It has been used to MODEL viruses and distant parts of the universe, as well as in nuclear weapons research.

It remains one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but has been replaced by something even faster.

"Roadrunner got everyone thinking in new ways about how to build and use a supercomputer,'' said Gary Grider, from the Los Alamos National Laboratory high performance computing division, in a statement.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21993132 Quote

The huge machine includes 12,000 modified versions of the processor originally designed for the SONY Playstation 3, and 92km (57 miles) of fibre OPTIC cable, housed in 288 refrigerator-sized cases.
I suppose the replacement supercomputer might be running Playstation 4 processors .... 



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