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Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster

Posted by pudge on from the more-pics-wanted dept.

Mr. Slurpee writes "Virginia Tech's 1100-node dual 2 GHz Apple G5 Terascale Cluster is getting racked up and ready to roar. If you're a penniless geek like me, at least there's some tech pr0n for us to drool over. There's 1100 of them ... think they could part with one?" Update: 09/22 02:55 GMT by T : Matt submits a link to this full mirror of the photos, writing "The page owner's comment on the original mirror being taken down due to bandwidth? 'Bring it on!'"

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  1. think massive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf clu...oh, wait.

    1. Re:think massive by lastninja · · Score: 5, Funny

      They should have bought 237 more G5s, that would have been so 1337.

      --
      John Carmack fan, browsing at +5 since 1999.
  2. 1100 reality distortion field generators by jtnishi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh God.

    Imagining each one of those came with just a little bit of Steve Job's Reality Distortion Field, someone from NASA might want to head over there and make sure that some kind of tear in space/time doesn't occur right there. With that many G5s, we don't know what level of destruction could happen.

  3. Re:space.. by entartete · · Score: 4, Funny

    the full sized cases will provide greater resistance to all the spoooge that will be sprayed over them by spontaneous orgasms of the hordes of apple fans comeing to worship before the mother of all apples.

  4. Re:Interesting... A Light Just Clicked On... by entartete · · Score: 5, Funny

    we got the dual processor g5 we ordered in at the university I work at and have had it for a while. I guess apple is really pushing to make the institutional customers happy. and if a university gets a g5 dozens of students can play with it and drool over it and become filled with g5 lust while if one regular customer gets one they'll just hide in their room mumbling about 'my preciousssss' and fondling it and that's not very good advertising and is sorta creepy.

  5. Video cards... by stevens · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they were able to run these without video cards. I can't imagine 1100 brand-new sweet ATI video cards sitting idle for years...

  6. Re:Why G5s? by McAddress · · Score: 5, Funny

    Truly amazing, how many of you ever thought you would live ling enough to see Apple win a contract based on price?

  7. Tshirts given to Terascale Volunteers by Kirby-meister · · Score: 5, Funny
    I volunteered time to help get some G5's ready for this baby, and I think my favorite moment was getting the tshirt all volunteers received:

    It is quite the fashion statement :)

    (Excuse the blurriness and poor lighting - crappy cam and crappy dorm lighting)

    1. Re:Tshirts given to Terascale Volunteers by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 4, Funny

      I volunteered time to help get some G5's ready for this baby, and I think my favorite moment was getting the tshirt all volunteers received:

      "Someone shelled out the cash for 1100 G5's and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" :-)

  8. Re:Where is mine? by Have+Blue · · Score: 4, Funny

    Second picture, bottom row, three in from the left.

  9. Look out, Cavaliers by Decaffeinated+Jedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Between the on-campus nuclear reactor and the supercomputer cluster, I'd keep an eye out if I were Tech's cross-state rival, University of Virginia. I'd say the Hokies are just one diabolical dean away from becoming an evil university bent on world domination. And five bucks says they start in Charlottesville.

    --
    DecafJedi
    my weblog: apropos of something