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Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer?

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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  2. Dear Apple, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Apple,
    I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.

    with much gayness,

    Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.

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

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

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  4. Re:confirmed: I just shat all over myself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't panic. Phone somebody you know and trust and get them to set off the fire alarm. While everybody traipses outside you can sneak off to the restroom, dispose of the "evidence" and fashion some temporary trousers out of paper towels. If anyone, upon returning to the office, should challenge you about your unconventional dress sense, shout "WHAT, ARE YOU DRUNK OR SOMETHING?" and storm out in a huff.

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  5. 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.
  6. 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 /.!