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Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Virginia Tech officially announced that they will be migrating their G5 Supercomputer from PowerMac G5s to Xserves. According to the article, the Xserve G5s will reduce power consumption, heat production and decrease the system size by a factor of three. The pricing of the upgrade is still being determined, and according to Srinidhi Varadarajan, they are working on getting "very good homes" for the PowerMac G5s which will be replaced."

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  1. Well duh? by endersdouble · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm really hardly suprised. But my real question is, did Virginia not realize that 1100 full-size G5's might cause problems? There is a reason such things as Xserves exist; they are for large-scale installations such as this one.

  2. Re:A friend of mine had a great idea about this by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet those things would be bid up sky-high on eBay!

    Even higher than the REGULAR price of a G5? Impossible.