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Offline RandomDude18

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Apple Has Xserve G5 Servers!
« on: January 06, 2005, 12:49:07 pm »
Anyone heard about this? I just happened to go to Apple's website and noticed it on the front page.
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Apple Has Xserve G5 Servers!
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2005, 12:49:54 pm »
They've been using G5 chips for a while, but these are the newer ones. They're nice.
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2005, 12:51:39 pm »
Yea, I think it was Virginia Tech that bought a massive cluster of G5 Xserves last year.  It ended up being one of the fastest 10 supercomputers in the world.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2005, 03:52:01 pm »
How fast is it?
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2005, 01:15:34 pm »
It's number 3, something around 10 teraflops. But interestingly, it only cost about 5 million dollars, while number 1 cost something around 300 million dollars, when it does 30 teraflops.
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2005, 03:26:06 pm »
Yea, though the NEC 30 teraflop Earth Simulator was built quite a while ago.  There are supercomputers by IBM and SGI that beat it now.  Anyway, the Xserve setup is in 7th now.

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