Virginia Tech builds G5 supercomputer cluster: power users.(Mac Beat)(Brief Article)
Macworld, January, 2004 by Schmeiser, Lisa
A dual-processor Power Mac G5 is pretty fast. But 1,100 dual-processor G5s connected in one computer cluster? That's really fast--fast enough to make Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's 1, 100-node G5 cluster the third-fastest supercomputer in the world.
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The Blacksburg, Virginia, school--commonly known as Virginia Tech--wasn't planning on using Power Mac G5s for its clustering project. The school's Terascale Computing Facility considered Intel Itanium 2-based and AMD Opteron-based computers, but it rejected both as too expensive. Then Apple unveiled the G5 at its June 2003 Worldwide Developers Conference. "We had our platform dropped in our lap," Terascale Computing Facility associate director Jason...
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