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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. I can adopt. by sammy+baby · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'll volunteer to provide a good home for one of those spare G5s. I know, it's a selfless act, but what can I say? I can't just stand idly by while distributed supercomputer nodes go homeless.

  2. Possible Money Spinner by h0tblack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Allthough 1000+ 'refurbs' could distort the 2nd-hand market a bit and I'm not sure Apple would want to buy them back, why don't VT make some money out of this. I'm sure that a Mac with an official "In my previous life I was part of BigMac" plaque on it would sell for more than the price of a vanilla 2Ghz G5. With all the publicity over the last 5/6 months these things are collectors items. VT could come out of this with a profit!
    (Guess I should have phrased this in a 1... 2... 3... Profit format) ;)

  3. mmm G5s by Abit667 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd Like a G5..or a couple hundred.. Where are they going to sell them?

  4. I'll take a dozen, please by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Two words.

    E. Bay.

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  5. ebay by LennyDotCom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They could put them on ebay and advertise them as a piece of computer history. Seeing as they were part of a world class super computer

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  6. They will do it later by tandr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    why not have a few more Xserves, I mean they already have the infrastructure for that much heat/power/room

    ok, so they are #3 now on the list and have space to put x3 Macs in the same rack space. I guess that they will "upsize Mac and fries" the future with more powerful Xservers and will be #3 again.