Comments on: U.S. pads lead in global supercomputing ranking

Panicky U.S. officials can calm down; the country's lead in supercomputers remains strong and is growing.
Photos: Supercomputers at SC05

[wobbble]

Apple has more than one machine in the top 500

Even one as high as 15th called the MACH5 with only 3072
processors. System X out of Virginia Tech is 20th.

[Arthur Young]

The xServe at 303 is at UCLA, not Bowie State

The Bowie State Apple cluster is ranked 308

[rbannon]

Apple actually has . . .

. . . two in the top twenty. COLSA is number 15 and Virginia Tech
is number 20. There are others as well, however there's no
Windows on the list.

[MikeDson]

I thought we were "falling behind"...

Hey this article doesn't fit the journalistic meme du jour that the US is "falling behind" in research, didn't you guys get the talking points fax?

You should at least add a paragraph saying "But American researchers mostly use supercomputers just to download porn."

[michael kanellos]

Apple and list

The organization lists only one super from apple. It's in the PDF by manufacturer. (it's page seven of the pdf-link on front door of their site.) In the counting, they apparently count the others as self-mades. but can clarify.

[alek_nedic]

Go USA

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