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Dallin Grimm

ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from the Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest supercomputer

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Still of ORNL's YouTube video of dismantling the Alpine storage system.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has decommissioned its Alpine storage system, a 250-petabyte storage system that held data for the Summit supercomputer and its other support systems. The Summit supercomputer, currently the world's ninth-fastest supercomputer, will be retired on November 1st, but its aging Alpine storage didn't survive that long.

As ORNL prepares for the Discovery system—a computer set to be the world's fastest with an estimated 8.5 exaFLOPS of performance—the time has come to decommission its predecessor, Summit. Summit was initially set to be shut down in 2023, but its high productivity rates led the Department of Energy to keep it in operation for another year. Unfortunately, its storage could not last so long.

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