Michael Jardeen: ...one OS to rule them all!The saga of a company, a bunch of lawsuits, lawyers, competitors, <br>and...oh yea, sometimes some software.(Untitled)- October 16, 2003 Mac Supercomputer: Fast, Cheap The brand new "Big Mac" supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be the second most powerful supercomputer on the planet, according to preliminary numbers. Early benchmarks of Virginia Tech's brand new supercomputer -- which is strung together from 1,100 dual-processor Power Mac G5s -- may vault the machine into second place in the rankings of the worlds' fastest supercomputers, second only to Japan's monstrously big and expensive Earth Simulator....more...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/inTheLandOfMsWhereShadowsLie/2003/10/16.html#a... |