power mac g5s - supercomputers...

Posted on October 15, 2003 by Judith Meskill
Wired News: Mac Supercomputer: Fast, Cheap By Leander Kahney
...The brand new "Big Mac" supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be the second most powerful supercomputer on the planet, according to preliminary numbers.
Early benchmarks of Virginia Tech's brand new supercomputer -- which is strung together from 1,100 dual-processor Power Mac G5s -- may vault the machine into second place in the rankings of the worlds' fastest supercomputers, second only to Japan's monstrously big and expensive Earth Simulator.
 
The Big Mac's final score on the Linpack Benchmark won't be officially revealed until Nov. 17, when the rankings of the TOP 500 Supercomputer sites are made known at the International Supercomputer Conference...
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