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Factual 'Big Mac' Results

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whole-lotta-clock-cycles dept.

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."

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  1. And all those people whining earlier... by i_r_sensitive · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    about the new patch not being made available for 10.2.

    Suck it up whiners, at least you don't have this particular upgrade and patch cycle...

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  2. Dude, when you go modding your hardware... by gatkinso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...don't expect the manufacturer to step out on that limb with you.

    Obviously that fan/heatsink combo was there for a reason. You removed it, you paid the price.

    "I added a superior cooling system to the machine, quietened it, IMPROVED it in every way, and they deny my claim?"

    Obviously your modified cooling system was quieter, but I suspect it was actually quite inferior.

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  3. Re:I wouldn't go messing around with Apple hardwar by falcon5768 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    its a law thing, you might have improved it, they might know you have improved it, but they cant risk fixing it for you and having everyone else do what you did and break their computers because they didnt take the care you did.

    It's common practice to deny claims to non-stock machines in the whole computer industry, we wont even replace a harddrive here if its still under its warranty. It's just not worth the risk of them not taking it in

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  4. Off-Topic: Trenchtown Rock by Nonki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One good thing about music, Well, it helps you feel no pain. So hit me with music; Hit me with music now. -- Bob Marley, "Trenchtown Rock"

    This quote is bugging me. It's really "When it hits you, you feel no pain."

  5. But does it play doom III? by E1v!$ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So will this beat a new 9800XT in doom III?