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New 640-Node Apple Xserve Cluster at UIUC

Posted by timothy on from the keeps-you-warm-at-night dept.

frostyboy writes "At the University of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Computational Science and Engineering , a new high-performance computing cluster comprising 640 Dual G5 Xserves has completed benchmarking runs for the top500 list. The New Turing Cluster is a replacement for an old 208-node linux cluster. Preliminary results have it at about 4.6 teraflops, not too shabby. Slide Presentation and Photo Album"

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  1. So is this the... by ciroknight · · Score: 1, Funny

    Small Mac? Perhaps the Double-Cheeseburger Mac?

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  2. Re:Sweet Dreams Steve by Stubtify · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or he could have dreams of this guy. I love the shirt... its almost too funny to be true.

  3. What? No HAL-9000 jokes? by joetheappleguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are we forgetting the other supercomputer born in Urbana, Illinois?

  4. Re:What? No HAL-9000 jokes? by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, they could just change the name slightly. You know, shift the letters one place in the alphabet....

    Of course, "GZK" is kinda hard to pronounce. ;)

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  5. Nice Shirt... by FlyingPostman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where did that Uber-Geek get that Star Wars T-Shirt? That guy is everything I picture when I think "nerd"

  6. Anyone else... by Electroly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else getting sick of seeing all these stories with pictures of people assembling hundreds of Xserves into massive clusters?

    Yeah, me neither.