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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. The Cost? by forlornhope · · Score: 1, Troll

    It really amazes me that VT can afford to waste so much money on a super-computer. Really, could they have not waited the 4 months to get their brand new shiney G5 based super-computer and not wasted so much money on all those G5 towers?

    I mean sure they can use them in computer labs and such but it still seems like a waste in the current education environment of tight budgets and program cutting.

    All Im saying is that this money probably could have been put to better use else where than getting VT their brand new toy "right now" instead of waiting 4 whole months to get the hardware they really needed for the project.

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    "We Don't Need No Truthless Heros!" - Project 86
  2. So what did they ever compute? by Lawrence_Bird · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is really amazing to me. They spend a chunk of coin
    on the system, barely get it up and running, don't actually use it for anything, and then run out and upgrade it 4 months later. Sounds like a typical home computer geek!

    But really, shouldn't somebody be better managing the money
    there and saying 'hey go do something worthwhile with your new toy, then ask for more money'?