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Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5
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."
TOY!!!
I've hired some of these VT CS grads and for the most part they don't know their ass from a typedef. I've hired ITT Tech grads with more understanding of software design and engineering than those morons.
Apples' competitors according to Yahoo Finance:
DIRECT COMPETITOR COMPARISON
AAPL DELL HPQ MSFT Industry
Market Cap: 8.49B 89.74B 79.64B 310.72B 216.00M
Employees: 10,912 39,100 142,000 55,000 344
RevGrowth: 8.10% 13.60% 29.10% 13.50% 0.00%
GrossMarg: 27.27% 18.26% 26.28% 81.68% 38.03%
EBITDA: 110.00M 3.62B 3.46B 11.76B -911.00K
OpMargins: 1.63% 8.53% 3.96% 29.88% 1.08%
NetIncome: 137.00M 2.50B 2.54B 8.88B -1.92M
EPS(ttm): 0.371 0.954 0.829 0.816 0.00
PE(ttm): 62.02 36.74 31.51 35.29 36.17
PEG(ttm): 4.02 1.88 1.70 2.35 1.81
PS(ttm): 1.26 2.26 1.09 9.07 2.14
mod "Debian Troll's Best" down, he's a freaking troll.
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
he's gonna fuck em, in much the same manner by which I fucked b0th j0 m0mmas last night.
Sweeeeeet. Good burn! You fucking rock!
I just hacked your site. Sorry.
keep sucking those dicks, pasty-faced faggot.
not that i'd like to defend rumsfeld, but US troops began pulling out of vietnam two years before he became secretary of defense.
If they were going for the ultimate in density and managability they should have bought a Power blade.s ervlet/C ategoryDisplay?categoryId=2586156&storeId=1&catalo gId=-840&langId=-1
http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/
Don't know about nuckin futs, but I am =D
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
Gregory Casamento
## Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
As has been pointed out countless times again, the cost was NOT a "mere" $5M. Their total hardware cost was ~$7M ($5.3M for the computers and memory, another $1.7M for the infiniband hardware), there was another $1M to upgrade an existing building. They also had the benefit of free labour (millions of Mac zealots) and have not factored in the cost of power and cooling (at 2MW total power and cooling, this is a pretty significant expense, about $5,000 a day) or the support costs.
These factors are typically included in the price tag of a super computer, but are always ignored with this Big Mac cluster. Once you start comparing apples to apples, it's still very cheap, but not nearly the sort of difference people make it out to be. If they didn't have free labour and a free building to house the thing then the difference would be even smaller.
So no, no one else will make it ot #3 in the Top500 list and no one has made it to #3 in this list. Even if you JUST look at the very solid and fixed up-front costs it was $8M.
English is nowhere near the topic of this discussion nor this thread.