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Macintosh cluster second to Earth Simulator
MasterAkumaMatata - Oct 17, 2003
    MasterAkumaMatata Oct 17, 2003 

  
A supercomputer assembled from 1,100 Apple Macintosh G5 dual-processor servers at Virginia Tech University appears likely to be the second fastest machine in the world. Preliminary tests show that its peak processing power will be 17.6 teraflops (trillion floating point operation per second). The world's largest supercomputer is located at the Marine Science and Technology Center in Kanagawa, Japan. It can operate at 35.6 teraflops using more than 5,000 processors. For details see http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999...


It's dubbed "Big Mac". :yum

   mal Oct 17, 2003 
Cloud121 is going to be insufferable when he reads this. :lol:

    Cloud121 Oct 17, 2003 
Uh.. what does insufferable mean? Once I know, I'll post a response

   Resident_Lurker Oct 17, 2003 
It means 'unbearable'.

Thus he means to say we will not be able to handle your many 'I love Macs' posts that are sure to follow in the upcoming hours.

    Cloud121 Oct 17, 2003 
BOOYA! G5 :bow Just another month and a newer Mac, than I one I've got, will be mine.

Current:

PPC 133 MHZ

96 MB RAM

2 MB VRAM

1.2 GB HDD

Mac OS 8.6

New Mac:

iMac 400, 450, or 500 MHZ

128 MB RAM (at least)

8 MB VRAM (400, 450 models) 16 MB VRAM (500 model)

10 - 30 GB HDD (I'd like at least 13 - 20)

Mac OS X Jaguar :bow :thumbs-up:

It's going to be a GREAT Day! :lol: :thumbs-up:

The G5 and Mac OS X Panther OWN YOU!

    it290 Oct 17, 2003 
Sadly, I don't think you'll be able to take advantage of Quartz XTreme with that sucka.

    racketboy Oct 17, 2003 

  
Originally posted by Cloud121@Oct 17, 2003 @ 09:05 PM

BOOYA! G5 :bow Just another month and a newer Mac, than I one I've got, will be mine.

Current:

PPC 133 MHZ

96 MB RAM

2 MB VRAM

1.2 GB HDD

Mac OS 8.6

New Mac:

iMac 400, 450, or 500 MHZ

128 MB RAM (at least)

8 MB VRAM (400, 450 models) 16 MB VRAM (500 model)

10 - 30 GB HDD (I'd like at least 13 - 20)

Mac OS X Jaguar :bow :thumbs-up:

It's going to be a GREAT Day! :lol: :thumbs-up:

The G5 and Mac OS X Panther OWN YOU!


yeah you're probably gonna want more that 128MB or RAM for Jaguar. I'm not OSX expert, but I think it eats memory for breakfast much like XP

    ratfish Oct 20, 2003 
I should put my Quadras and Performas together.

It could be called the "Little Mac".

Nobody laughed because it's more true than it is funny (-Ed.)