Shutdown of last supercomputer at CSCS in Manno marks 20 years of history
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre moved early 2012 from its original location in Manno to Lugano (a few kilometers away). The last computer that has been switched off in Manno has been a Cray XT4 named Buin that has been used in the last five years to compute the numerical weather forecast for MeteoSwiss.
In this movie we see Davide sending the shutdown command to Buin and the powering off the supercomputer. The shutdown terminates 20 years of supercomputing history in Manno.
Stop, Dave, I'm Afraid
3:15 ua-cam.com/video/UgkyrW2NiwM/v-deo.html
Shintaro - similar to the comment I was going to make, but better. :-)
always sad to see the end of an era
What era? They just moved it a few km away.
yeah but the TFLOPS / KWH of those machines must be abysmal.
I know the feeling... It is a mix of sad and gratitude. :) :(
>shutting down a cray
press F for feels ;~ ;
What was the XT4's uptime at that time? Nice video!
3:15 "Hello Darkness my old friend, Ive come to speak to you again. . . whispered in the sounds, of silence"
Daisy, Daisy, give me your heart so true.................
One or two mainframes and IBM pSeries machines in there as well?
Was that Stanford University Network system still running, or was the rack just repurposed for other gear?
Sun Microsystems! how's that for nostalgia
What happened to the old hardware?
Are computers like this recycled? Could colleges or other institutions make use of them?
Cray take them back if you ask them : www.cray.com/support/product-recycling
Tortue CH In Switzerland, all electric and electronic devices have a prepaid recycling tax, so vendors here must take back old gadgets for recycling.
I know
This cray xt4 is now in the Enter Computer museum in solothurn
Sadly they're worth more in scrap, lots of cu & al in the heat stinks, racks and case. The components are not worth selling, don't even think storage is really reused. Cables depending on what maybe reused. Guessing they sell mobo and chips to extract the gold.
Kinda sad really
I felt the same way when I was working for Computerland HQ, and the last Apple Lisa was taken back from us by Apple.
RIP
Shutting down computer shifted if you change store first the memory decompile the system and then store in one apps to download by the Android OS Version to used by the student who willing to take a course of IT or information technology
Wow, 1TFLOP per cabinet, my desktop is 22x the performance of the entire machine and "only" uses 1.5kW. I can see why people want to switch these things off, the TFLOP/watt must be terrible, OK, they're not mining cryptocurrency, but the number of variables for predicting the weather only increases and the time to get a forecast out is always getting smaller. I wonder how much the building cost vs. the price of the computer? In my experience, commodity hardware has been slowly eating away at the supercomputer market since the 1990s, these generation of Cray XT3/4 & 5 are all x64 based. GPU compute has been the way to go for the last 10 years, the CPU is just the ring master for the OS, comms and tasks.
Check out Cerebras' systems, namely their wafer-scale based supercomputer. That and neuromorphic stuff is the future, going past GPU compute.
What happent to this machine did somebody bought it..?
Probably got scrapped, as what usually happens sadly.
I'm hearing Viago from What We Do in the Shadows
Mix English and Italian haha good job!
Well maybe could have been a little more thoughtful about how you shot the video for this so we all weren’t too dizzy to care.
It takes a windows to kill a unix.
MarquisDeSang 1 Windows x Unix
MarquisDeSang It takes a Toaster running NetBSD to shut down Windows.
at least he is using a thinkpad
The Thinkpad is running GNU/Linux with the KDE desktop environment, not Windows...
O shit! I can see it now there is a KDE logo on the taskbar.
Thanks for pointing it out EE!
vary sad.
Lo vendete?
The new computer will probably compute in a day what took that computer 20 years!
А вот какую задачу выполнял данный сервер последние несколько лет?
Майнил биток с эфиром
... sono commosso ...incredibile!
Then some UA-camr scrapped it for gold!
Or some random guy took it and gave it a second chance at life
"Daisy daisy..."
Daisy, daisy.
Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer Do.. I'm half CRAYz all for the love of you.......
R.I.P Supercomputers
How sad...
That was like going in to your bedroom and turning the light off... wait? we can turn it on.. or off... ya...
couldn't he have just turned it off the night before when he left work like we all do ?
L(
format c:
all outdated legacy systems anyways
Heaven forbid anybody ever feel any nostalgia or think beyond the latest in tech..!
I want pizza!
just pull the plug
It was being decommissioned for a museum. Ideally the museum would want to run it, if you "pull the plug" the machine will engage its UPS and go into emergency mode. It is a pain in the arse to rebuild the machine in that state. I suspect this won't be the last time the computer is powered, as there are more decommissioning steps to be taken separating the cabinets, removing proprietary licences, custom software, user data and getting a disposal clearance certificate. It isn't a big system, so the museum could easily take it, wire it up and have "in-steam" days where people can come and marvel and the noise and heat of a 21st century "super computer"