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JPL Clusters XServes

Posted by pudge on from the mmm-speed dept.

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."

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  1. And there's no evidence of an intrinsic limit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. fight against ESSIAC? by daemonjon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Essiac: the cure for (many types of) cancer. The fight against cancer has been won, now its a fight against pharmecutical companies.
    http://www.sumeria.net/health/essiac.h tml is a good recap of the story so far. You can doubt all you want (I sure did) but i have seen it work. Since Essiac isnt patentable there is no real marketing budget behind it, so i guess im just trying to do my part.
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  3. Re:Obligatory Post with a Splash of Lemon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why don't you go for an all out Lemon Party?

  4. Re:Imagine This... by rampant+mac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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 :)

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