Power Mac G5 supercluster at Virginia Tech

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Power Mac G5 supercluster at Virginia Tech

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A report (from Apple, so yeah, totally unbiased) about the supercluster of Power Mac G5 computers at Virginia Tech in December 2003. Also known as "System X" or "Big Mac". I don't want to be a drag, but watching the racks of Power Mac G5s - am I the only one feeling the heat? :-D

Apparently student volunteers at Virginia Tech began building this one comprised of 1,100 dual 2 GHz Macs. The only modiﬁcation made to the G5s was the addition of an Iniﬁniband card in a PCI-X slot to speed communication between the G5s. This supercomputer cluster has been rated at 9.55 teraﬂops or 9.55 trillion calculations per second and has been built with a three-year budget of $5.2 million. Sounds like much, but the fastest computer at the time (Japan's Earth Simulator) was constructed for $250 million. Ouch.

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Home » Videos » Mac Reports » Power Mac G5 supercluster at Virginia Tech Power Mac G5 supercluster at Virginia Tech Description: A report (from Apple, so yeah, totally unbiased) about the supercluster of Power Mac G5 computers at Virginia Tech in December 2003. Also known as "System X" or "Big Mac". I don't want to be a drag, but watching the racks of Power Mac G5s - am I the only one feeling the heat? :-D Apparently student volunteers at Virginia Tech began building this one comprised of 1,100 dual 2 GHz Macs. The only modiﬁcation made to the G5s was the addition of an Iniﬁniband card in a PCI-X slot to speed communication between the G5s. This supercomputer cluster has been rated at 9.55 teraﬂops or 9.55 trillion calculations per second and has been built with a three-year budget of $5.2 million. Sounds like much, but the fastest computer at the time (Japan's Earth Simulator) was constructed for $250 million. Ouch. Uploaded by: z970 Download: 320x240px \| 61.5MB: pmg5-supercluster-va-tech.mov 480x320px \| 129.8MB: pmg5-supercluster-va-tech_ppc.mov Something doesn't work? Check out our Help section!
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