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200-Gigaflop Mac Cluster

Posted by pudge on from the i'll-buy-that-for-a-kroner dept.

Mauro Notarianni writes in that the Danish Technical University (DTU) has developed the Scandinavia's largest dedicated Mac cluster. "Velocity-X" is packed with 32 dual G4/800's (200 Gigaflops), and will be turned on Monday. Its primary use will be studying the influence of proteins on cancer, and, more importantly, large film and animation projects. It can be rented for DKK 50,000 (about USD 6,500) per week.

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  1. Importance by recursiv · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its primary use will be studying the influence of proteins on cancer, and, more importantly, large film and animation projects.

    More importantly? Animation? Than cancer?
    Apparently someone hasn't had any relatives die of cancer recently. That's a pretty insensitive remark. If this was a comment, I would be sure it was a troll.

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  2. Re:I gotta say it:) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    That is one GAY cluster! Its so fruity looking hence "APPLE".

    So you are always thinking homosexual thoughts, eh? I bet you wish you could suck every cock on /. don't you? Grow up already faggot boy.

  3. Sounds Great by Higatsuku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Consistantly, Apple has been making strides to create a platform that is ideal for scientific applications like this. The Altivec processing unit allows the G4 to handle 256bit chunks of data at a time and process it fast. The large cache will allow the process to never starve for info from ram. Optimized number crunching aps for Mac smoke (most) anything else out there, and certainly anything on the x86 side of computing.

    Further more, anyone out there who complains about wintel and isn't up to their neck in open source development should back off on the Apple bashing. Here is a company who is, at the very least, trying to innovate or just evolve computing to be better for everyone. (while making money, as any business is designed to) Unintelligent Apple bashing is getting pretty old by now. Why don't you come up with some factual arguements..or better yet, go to an Apple store and use one for a while. Start the terminal..find out just how half-baked windows is compared to OS X and how easy the Mac OS is compared to the hair pulling fun of linux. (yes I know red had can be installed by a monkey, but if you break it, good luck for any newbie)

    Just a piece of my mind.