Comments on: Virginia Tech beefs up Mac supercomputer

School is the second organization to pre-announce performance claims before the November release of a list of the world's fastest computers.

[Dachi]

How much work have they completed?

They spent all that money on all those G4 machines to what, place on the top500 list and take the system offline? The system was operational for all of about 2 weeks and they tore out the entire system and completely replaced it with cluster nodes already. Sounds like a costly mistake.
In the amount of time this thing has spent online the 450 Mhz AMD next to me could have accomplished most of the same tasks with alot less money.

Get it right!

The original computers were dual G5s, not G4s. The system was
up and running for some six months, not two weeks, and the net
cost of each dual processor G5 Xserve works out at $517: not
bad for that much of a speed boost.

Remond, we have a problem...

THIS is the system that Microsoft Executives & Analyst are calling
a "toy OS"?
Go to this link to read lame MS story about Mac OSX / Unix / IBM
G5...
http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/
mac_os_x_called_toy_by_microsoft_apologist/

Redmond, we have a problem...Jurassic Park at MS Campus.
-Eyes wide open in Seattle -

G5 PowerMac Power Cluster saves Star Wars Trilogy

STAR WARS DVD TRILOGY remaster produced with 600 Apple
PowerMac dual G5 chip towers as cluster raid system.

Go to link to read the story:

http://www.apple.com/pro/film/lowry/starwars/

Massive power computing cluster at lower price...awesome!
Think Different...Think BIG RAID!

[Thomas, David]

What about COLSAs 24 teraflop Mac Cluster?

Why isn't the DOD contracters', COLSA, super-cluster mentiond.
I believe they built it with 1564 dual G5 Xserves. Have to look
up the article again to be sure about that. But I do remember
they were operating at 24 tera flops