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Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer?

Posted by michael on from the computer-hogs dept.

hype7 writes "ThinkSecret is running a story which might explain exactly why the Dual 2GHz G5 machines have been delayed to the customers that ordered them minutes after the keynote was delivered. Apparently, Virginia Tech has plans to build a G5 cluster of 1100 units. If it manages to complete the cluster before the cut-off date, it will score a Top 5 rank in the Linpack Top 500 Supercomputer List. Both Apple and the University are playing mum on the issue, but there's talk of it all over the campus."

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  1. Re:wow man! by karmavore · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dude, you're getting alot of Dell's!!!!!

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  2. Re:I, for one... by Ninja+Programmer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Damn, ethernet controllers must really piss you off then, huh?
    How so? Xerox PARC had all sorts of good inventions that are worth while and survive to this day.
  3. Re:AltiVec by cosmo7 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Isn't AltiVec just the new whizzy-word at Apple?

    They were using RISC as their wizzy-word a decade ago, and they seem to go through a few of them every few years.

    Wow! George W Bush reads /.!