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Own a Piece of An Apple-Based Supercomputer

Posted by simoniker on from the tremendously-historical dept.

Graff writes "Now that Apple has come out with the Xserve G5, Virginia Tech has been swapping out parts of their 'System X' supercomputer for the more compact 1U Xserves. MacMall is selling some of those System X component G5 systems with an approximate $200 savings and an extra 512 megs of RAM over a normal G5. You can read more about it at MacCentral."

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  1. Re:So, why did the sale happen so early? by gl4ss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *Why couldn't VT hold their horses?

    Because they had a deadline to meet if they wanted to make that Top CPUs list.*

    yeah sounds like a real good reason, "we need to hurry this buying decision because umm.. we really want to look cool on this top list here!". not.

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