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JPL Clusters XServes
burgburgburg writes "MacSlash has a brief note how NASA's JPL has put together a cluster of 33 XServes that was able to achieve 1/5 teraflop. The original article notes that the Applied Cluster Computing Group, using Pooch (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic Application) ran the AltiVec Fractal Carbon demo and achieved over 217 billion floating-point operations per second on this XServe cluster. More importantly, their research indicates that no evidence of an intrinsic limit to the size of a Macintosh-based cluster could be found."
Actually, they should get twenty Ellen Feiss' up there, watch `em smoke 3 pounds of fat ganja and see if they can type up a paper. Or smoke it. Whatever :)
I like big butts and I cannot lie.