Norway gets its first Xserve G5 cluster

Pretty stiff competition for Virginia Tech...

When Jim-Bob's Photoshop Shack buys 4 G5's for their employees will Macnn post that too?

I bought a bagel this morning. I may buy 4 tomorrow
If this is news were in bad shape on the Mac Platform

While 4 XServes may not be an impressive number because the Virginia Tech cluster has thousands, I think that there could be many labs, i.e. thousands, that could use XServes for the same or similar purposes. Think more about this providing a new market than the 4 XServes and the story has more importance. Of course, that point could be made more clearly.

"The cluster will be capable of performing 16 gigaflops per second"

That's pretty unimpressive. It sounds like your "four Xserve G5 systems" is basically just 4 Xserves total, because that's all you'd need to hit 16 Gflops/s.

If the article is accurate, this is definitely not newsworthy.

Ummmm... Your basically saying "Billion floating point operations per second per second"

I had to do a double take(?) when I read a total of 4XS....lol @ MacNN ;)

That's not a cluster that's a foursome

"16 gigaflops per second"

Is that like acceleration? "16 billion floating point operations per second per second." That's pretty sweet. At that rate, their cluster will surpass VT in no time.

Apple is just RIPE to make a ton of money on this project!