Virginia Tech’s decision to build a supercomputer out of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s — a true break from the architecture of traditional, mainframe supercomputers — allowed the university to cut its costs in half. According to researchers, the supercomputer represents a new model for ultra high-end computing in science and research. Virginia Tech’s dual 2-GHz G5-based supercomputer, unofficially ranked this week as the world’s third fastest supercomputer at 9.555 teraflops, is getting even faster as the project team optimizes the system, which represents the first-ever Mac-based contender among supercomputers.
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Virginia Tech Fine Tunes Power Mac G5 Supercomputer
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 30, 2003 09:56 AMVirginia Tech’s decision to build a supercomputer out of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s — a true break from the architecture of traditional, mainframe supercomputers — allowed the university to cut its costs in half. According to researchers, the supercomputer represents a new model for ultra high-end computing in science and research. Virginia Tech’s dual 2-GHz G5-based supercomputer, unofficially ranked this week as the world’s third fastest supercomputer at 9.555 teraflops, is getting even faster as the project team optimizes the system, which represents the first-ever Mac-based contender among supercomputers.