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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. Re:TROLL ALARM! by sebi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what? He is a very funny and inventive troll. You know--the good kind. The one we would need a +1 moderation option for.

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    Hank! White!
  2. Re:Video Cards & Optical Drives by proj_2501 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not that i'd like to defend rumsfeld, but US troops began pulling out of vietnam two years before he became secretary of defense.

  3. No evidence it's a GNU/Linux user at all.. by borgheron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is no evidence, aside from the fact that SCO has pissed a lot of people off, that it's a GNU/Linux user.

    In fact, it's arguable since this person obviously has some knowledge about Windows APIs, it may be someone outside of the community trying to stir up trouble.

    Whoever it is, however, what you're doing is wrong and should be stopped.

    One other question... when a Windows user acts stupidly do people judge all windows users? If not, then why when one Linux user acts stupidly, if it is indeed one, which is doubtful, do people rush to judgement against the entire community??

    My point is that they shouldn't.

    GJC

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  4. MOD OFFTOPIC + TROLL by shaitand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    English is nowhere near the topic of this discussion nor this thread.