Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster

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!'"

Comments

1100 reality distortion field generators

[jtnishi]

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.

Re:Interesting... A Light Just Clicked On...

[entartete]

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.

Re:Why G5s?

[McAddress]

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

Tshirts given to Terascale Volunteers

[Kirby-meister]

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)

Re:think massive

[lastninja]

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