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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.
..... DOWN your DONKEY dick LICKIN throats!
When you guys grow up and learn how to use two mouse buttons or *gasp* three, then I'll start listening again. Or has apple gotten rid of the one button mouse finally?
It makes Apple look good. Therefore it is bad. Or at least infamous.
No, it doesn't make any sense, but if you're religiously convinced that something is bad, it doesn't have to, right?
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Just how is it infamous? Perhaps the author needs (to use) a dictionary...
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
The only market penetration is Steve Job's dong into Apple users' assholes
Apple has NOT grasped Open Source.
They are cognizant of it, and more O.S. friendly than some, but they sell a very closed-source OS on a very closed architecture.
A Good Intro to NetBS
I am sick of all this hype.
No self respecting supercomputer would be caught without ECC memory and not one of the G5 boxen at VT has it.
I estimate that there are about 64K memory chips alone in their configuration with this number of chips and no ECC you could compute really fast and GET UNDECTECTABLE ERRORS in the computation.
So its all a stunt to get your attention and not really accomplish anything real. Now if they do replace all the G5 towers with G5 Xserve that will be a different story because G5 Xserve has ECC.
Ya know, Apple supercomputers are different and all, but just you really cant get games for it.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Sadly, they cheaped out and didn't use ECC memory for this cluster, so any answers they get are suspect.
They had a hard time keeping it up long enough to complete the Top 500 benchmark, and they never got the same answers twice.
Not a real supercomputer.
It did feel rather uncomfortable, didn't it?
That was classic intercourse!