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Myrinet Available for Mac OS X
KeithOSC writes "Looks like Apple may have one more step closer to real parallel computing. Myricom has just released its drivers for their high-speed cluster computing interconnect. I've been beta testing for two months now. With my findings, Mac OS X may be a real Beowulf cluster option. (Now, if Apple would just give us faster memory and PCI buses.)"
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Myrinet itself thinks this is news:
"The IWR parallel high-performance computer was installed at the beginning of this year and consists of 512 AMD Athlon MP processors, two of them are placed into one computing node. These processors have frequencies of 1.4GHz and reach a theoretical maximum performance of 2.4 billion floating point operations per second (Gflops). The total system indicates a theoretical peak performance of more than 1.4 Teraflops, which well exceeds even all present installed Myrinet PC cluster in the USA. First performance measurements by using the well known Linpack Benchmark show an extraordinary performance of 825 Gflops, which would have placed this supercomputer in 24th position of last November on the list of the Top 500 most powerful computers in the world."
You can use lego mindstorms as webservers and you can use Macs in a cluster, but who would want to?
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