Retiring -- and shredding -- the Alpine storage system
September 17, 2024
September 17, 2024
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release:
ORNL staff removed and recycled more than 32,000 hard drives belonging to the Alpine high-performance storage system in preparation for building the lab's next world leading supercomputer. Credit: Angela Gosnell/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they're retired? Surpris . . .
ORNL staff removed and recycled more than 32,000 hard drives belonging to the Alpine high-performance storage system in preparation for building the lab's next world leading supercomputer. Credit: Angela Gosnell/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they're retired? Surpris . . .