In terms of age this system isn't a dinosaur - the problem is the hardware architecture as stated in the article: Cell is now obsolete, noone wants to program new software for it anymore. X86 systems on the other hand, even older ones, can still be targeted by new Software without problems, so it may still make sense to keep them. To be blunt, the accelerator market simply moved to NVIDIA Tesla.
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In terms of age this system isn't a dinosaur - the problem is the hardware architecture as stated in the article: Cell is now obsolete, noone wants to program new software for it anymore. X86 systems on the other hand, even older ones, can still be targeted by new Software without problems, so it may still make sense to keep them. To be blunt, the accelerator market simply moved to NVIDIA Tesla.