New 640-Node Apple Xserve Cluster at UIUC

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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Re:Linux?

[geoffspear]

Ah, Slashdot. Where people reply to people who haven't read the article with assumptions based on nothing in particular, but make it clear that the person replying hasn't read the article, either.

It's running OS X.

I'm impressed.

[suitepotato]

No, really. This should be almost powerful enough to run next years (cr)applications from Macrodobe.

Okay, seriously, it is impressive and another good illustration of the strengths of OSX over every horrible thing Apple called the Macintosh OS before they went over to the *nix base.

Oh yeah, that Star Wars t-shirt guy reminds me of what I looked like before I became older, grayer, and crustier. I'm so glad I stopped wearing shirts like that.