By running thousands of processors in parallel supercomputers not only help design weapons systems they also model climate change crack codes and help develop new and life-changing drugs.

By running thousands of processors in parallel, supercomputers not only help design weapons systems, they also model climate change, crack codes, and help develop new and life-changing drugs.

They've been kept running by a crack team at Kennedy space Center, allowing the old machines to keep on trucking all the way through the space shuttle era.