For all the money and effort poured into supercomputers, their life spans can be brutally short – on average about four years. So, what happens to one of the world's greatest supercomputers when it reaches retirement age?  If it's the Texas Advanced Computer Center's (TACC) Ranger supercomputer, it continues making an impact in the world. If the system could talk, it might proclaim, "There is life after retirement!" "Ranger was the first supercomputer in open science to approach the petascale mark," said Happy Sithole (pronounced ‘see-toll-yah'), director of the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa. "Now, it is starting projects that are important in building high performance computing in Africa."  To read further, please visit https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/feature-stories/2014/ranger-begins-new-life-in-africa.