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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:Linux? by geoffspear · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

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  2. 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.