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Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster

Posted by timothy on from the army-of-a-quite-a-bunch-actually dept.

olePigeon (Wik) writes "MacCentral has an interesting article on a new computer cluster. From the article: 'Apple Computer Inc. will announce on Monday the sale of 1566 dual processor 1U rack-mount 64-bit Xserve G5 servers to COLSA Corp., which will be used to build what is expected to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The US$5.8 million cluster will be used to model the complex aero-thermodynamics of hypersonic flight for the U.S. Army.'" alset_tech was one of the many readers to point to CNET's version of the story.

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  1. True purpose by CmdrMooCow · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    With a system THAT powerful, Im sure it won't simply be doing just that, particularly with the US draft nearing readiness.

  2. But... by keefey · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Will it still only have one mouse button? Sorry.

  3. the army, this type of computer???? by diitante · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This seems highly suspicious that they need their own system for this work. Couldnt they hire the time on someone elses for much less? Sounds like a good machine for databasing the all personal info of all people in the world that are currently electronic but too widespread to make use of. Or something of similar evil nature.

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  4. Re:Why the Army? by schild · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Uh, dude, 'principles' don't pay the bills.

    'Think Different' was an Ok ad-campaign when MacOS was actually better than Windows95/98. But in the age of XP and 2000, you'd be lucky to get such stability from an OSX machine.

    Apple could really use a sale like this.

    -1,FLAMEBAIT, ROCK.

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