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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. Re:The FAQ is wrong by FidelCatsro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suppose they mean it dosn't come as standard as you have to conciously decide to install it , and since they dont need the overheads of two windowing systems..

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