A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer

Mr Bob "The original" bougert brings us "...a video of the Virginia Tech super computer centre. How many people think that super computer centres like this, with their reasonably cheap cost should be created in more places? This video of the infamous super computer should be interesting to some and pretty to look for others." It views like an ad for Apple, but Virginia Tech has scored quite an achievement with this milestone, and this should serve as a decent introduction for those unfamiliar with the project.

Comments

And now for the obligitory...

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!

Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

iGrow tired of all these apple stories.

Ad? Really?

[rabel]

It views like an ad for Apple,

Gee, did the fact that it was hosted at apple.com clue you in?

Sheesh

[Marco_polo]

Here I was feeling manly because i just upgraded my mac to 1Gig of Ram.

I wish I could have this in my basement.. and I would serve old games of quarterstaff on it. :-)

Another cool cluster

[Anonymous Coward]

here is another cool cluster of apples

Have you been under a rock?

[justMichael]

It's currently #3

Interesting

[WndrBr3d]

it's nice to know that after a hap-hazard movie career, Fisher Stevens can go on to do an Apple Commercial about the Virgina Tech Super Computer. He can put on a clever discuise, but the minute he said 'Oh no Jonny Five', I knew it was him.

The fastest photoshopping in the WORLD!

[pjwalen]

And with this server we are able to kick out photoshopped images at an ALARMING rate!

Re: It views like an ad for Apple

[hoggoth]

> I'd rather watch this video than endure another Linux bore-a-thon.

My favorite linux-switch-ad.

In-Famous

[khendron]

Why does Cliff repeatedly use the word "infamous" (a synonym of "notorious") to describe nifty things, like a supercomputer. He did it earlier today with the article about the Internet Archive.

Maybe he's using the Three Amigos definition of the word...

Re:In-Famous

[cranos]

Another Three Amigos Reference:

Ned: Oh Look a Mail plane

Chevy: How do you know its a Mail Plane?

Ned: Its got these little balls

Sorry

My favourite quote:

[ath0mic]

"At a price of 5.2 million dollars, practically anyone can build one. "

I think I'll invest in one of these right after I pay off my iPod.

Re:PCs to Crays

[lquam]

I've heard Cray's make great couches to compliment modernist furniture--think Le Corbusier, Herman Miller, Eileen Gray. Hang a Kandinsky on the wall and you're all set.

--Len Quam

It views like an ad for Apple?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just like Slashdot then.

Re:Apple Hardware?

[IM6100]

I'm ready to show up to the Mac OS Refund Rally.

I even volunteer to be the tool wearing the Darth Vader mask.

That's it - I'm moving my DC ops to VA Tech!

[EmCeeHawking]

That is one of the coolest-looking datacenters I've ever seen.

Our DC has regular fluorescent lights, and the NOC gets really uppity about it when we turn off all the lights, lay down some soft blue floorlighting, and turn on some Wagnerian New Age inspirational music in the background. Some shit about OSHA or something.

Well screw them, I'm moving my boxes to VA Tech !

the funniest thing about this video

[sbma44]

was how the project leader kept saying it was nice to have a supercomputer running an OS he can check his email on.

I'm sure he knows his stuff, but this seemed like just about the most assinine justification for a supercomputer design that I've ever heard. Thinking back (I just watched this during Jobs' keynote), I can't remember ever hearing what exactly they were planning to use this for. I know it'll get put to a lot of research uses, but maybe they could have talked about some of those. As it stands, the only thing I know this will be used for is really, really, really fast spam filtering.

So this is at VA Tech, huh?

[cmh7r]

I assume its application somehow involves simulation of cows or chicken-feed molecules?