Apple sells supercomputer sequel

[billbuckhead]

Apple sells supercomputer sequel

Last modified: June 21, 2004, 3:40 PM PDT

By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


A U.S. Army contractor has purchased a $5.8 million, 1,566-server supercomputer from Apple Computer, a real-world cousin to an academic system that briefly appeared high on a list of the most powerful machines.

In November, a machine called System X with 1,100 dual-processor Power Mac G5 workstations climbed to third place on the Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers. On Monday, Huntsville, Ala.-based Colsa announced it's buying a larger system called MACH 5 to run Army simulations of the aerodynamics of flight much faster than the speed of sound.


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[Race4Peace]

1. Wish I had one of those

[Poiuyt]

2. G5's are the best

I only have one though.

[Renew Deal]

3. Congrats to Apple.

The G5 is a terrific powerful and expensive machine.

[Nomad559]

4. Linux systems now comprise more than half of world's fastest 500 computers

http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/06/21/2312237.shtml?tid=2&tid=82&tid=94


Go back more than a few years ago and Linux had zero representation among the world's fastest supercomputers, which relied on traditional, monolithic mainframe machines running Unix or other operating systems. In the last few years, however, the open source operating system has begun dominating the list, thanks to clustering and Intel hardware in the supercomputing market.

List co-compiler and one of the original editors of the 12-year-old Top 500 Fastest List Erich Strohmaier told NewsForge that although there were no Linux systems when the list started and only a few at the most five years ago, Linux is now clustering its way to the top.

"The representation of Linux in the Top 500 list has increased quite a bit in the last few years," Strohmaier said. "The number of cluster systems has increased strongly in the last three to four years from a few to more than half the list," he added, referring to 280 cluster systems on the latest list, released Monday.

[AlCzervik]

5. My hubby works

for Apple, i'll take all the good news i can get.