$200M Supercomputer To Be Decommissioned Within Weeks — ORNL’s Summit Could Be A Bargain For Someone With Very Deep Pockets, High Ambitions (And A Decent Amount Of Real Estate To Park It All)

$200M Supercomputer To Be Decommissioned Within Weeks — ORNL’s Summit Could Be A Bargain For Someone With Very Deep Pockets, High Ambitions (And A Decent Amount Of Real Estate To Park It All)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has announced via X/Twitter that it plans to retire its Summit supercomputer in November 2024. After six years of service and more than 200 million node hours of research, Summit’s retirement will mark the end of what was the world’s most powerful supercomputer in 2018.

Summit’s infrastructure includes 9,216 IBM Power 9 processors and 27,648 Nvidia Volta GPUs. With a peak performance of 148.6 petaflops, it has since been surpassed by newer technologies and now ranks ninth globally.

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