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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 found... by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you shine light through a crystal, it is diffracted in a specific manner that can be corollated with the internal structure of that crystal. Shining X-Rays through crystallized protein will similarly produce a diffraction pattern that can be used to determine the three dimensional structure of that protein.

    A stereo video card is a system that can present different video images to the left and right eye of the user, producing an illusion of depth. I would imagine that this would be very helpful in visualizing three dimensional protein structure.