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Factual 'Big Mac' Results
danigiri writes "Finally Varadarajan has put some hard facts on the speed of the VT 'Big Mac' G5 cluster. Undoubtedly after some weeks of tuning and optimization, the home-brewn supercluster is happily rolling around at 9.555 TFlops in LINPACK.
The revelations were made by the parallel computing voodoo master himself at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference. It seems they are expecting and additional 10% speed boost after some more tweaking. Srinidhi received standing ovations from the audience.
Wired news is also running a cool news piece on it. Lots of juicy technical and cost details not revealed before. Myth dispelling redux: yes, VT paid full price, yes, it's running Mac OS X Jaguar (soon Panther), yes, errors in RAM are accounted for, Varadarajan was not an Apple fanboy in the least... read the articles for more booze."
Big Macs are bad for your health.
....ok, we've really got real numbers THIS time!!
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I haven't seen a cluster of Macs this big and powerful since the last annual pimp convetion!
Now, where did all the tricks go?
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
The power usage (think cooling the room) for a similarly-performing Athlon cluster would likely more than make up for what phantom price difference you are talking about.
MORTAR COMBAT!
An audience member asked if he'd made the purchase through the Apple store. Varadarajan smiled and said that actually, yes, he had.
[snip]
yes, it's running MacOSX Jaguar ( soon Panther)
More like whole-lotta-CD-jockying. Perhaps the bio department can lend a hand by donating the services of their chimps to handle the CD swapping.
(Yes, I'm aware there are smarter ways of doing it, but isn't it a fun mental picture, 100 chimps running around a cluster of G5's and throwing bananas and CDs at each other?) Talk about your fun install-fests.
Please help metamoderate.
Until then, quit your trolling.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
'yes, errors in RAM are accounted for,' And no malloc library benchmark jumbling bullshit this time? T minus 10 minutes before some PC nut looks at all this, sees that the Mac relies on something a PC can't do, and 'blows the whistle'. T minus 15 minus before they realize it's the OS.
the nodes available for parallelized word
Does it make Word's performance acceptable?
When you get on the list. Then you have a supercomputer
From the wired article:
"After his presentation, a group of nerds followed him to the hotel's bar for drinks, hanging on his every word."
How dorky did these guys have to be to have a reporter for "Wired" catagorize them as nerds...damn....
Think how much faster it will be when they switch all the nodes over to Linux! :-)/2
... but that doesn't matter. An accomplishment is an accomplishment. Besides if an AI manifests itself it'd be less likely to destroy the world and more likely to tell you that your white socks do not match your purple tie.
I agree, Microsoft should build in a spellchecker accessible from the right-click context menu when clicked inside any dialog box. This idea is clearly obvious, as I'm a well known idiot.
boxen is a completely legitimate old english plural:
ox -- oxen
box -- boxen
and it is a well known fact that the Canteruery Tale was writen with emacs.
Now, that's a real number.
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Ah. In that case, the word you were looking for was 'brizzled', MizzutherFizzucker.
Hope this helps.
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