http://www.macnn.com/articles/03/11/04/'big.mac'/
'Big Mac' Ranked third Fastest Supercomputer
updated 11:30 pm EST, Tue November 4, 2003
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\'Big Mac\' ranked No. 3
A supercomputer made from 1,100 off-the-shelf Apple Macs at Virginia Tech now among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, many of which handle with ease 1 trillion calculations per second. The Terascale Cluster computer, nicknamed ``Big Mac'' by some, conducts 9.6 trillion calculations per second. Theoretically, Big Mac could handle a potential 17 teraflops, or 17 trillion operations per second, according to the Associated Press. That still falls short of the No. 1 machine, Japan's Earth Simulator, whose 5,000-plus processors keep it on top with 35.8 teraflops, with the potential of another 5 teraflops.
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www.top500.org all g5 ...
Apples supercomputer uses 3 times less electricity+cooling and is 5 times cheaper (for the result speed) than any other cluster.
Soon you will see mac g5 clusters + infiniband (shared memory) dominate the entire top 30 spots in the www.top500.org list in 12 months.
The only exceptions are clusters paid for with taxpayers money at the federal level.
There should be criminal investigations and audits if any more intel itanium 2 or intel xeons are bought in 2004 using taxpayer funds.
shame on government fanboys of intel for not recognizing value.
10.28 teraflops for merely 3 million dollars of apple machines + some expensive networking cards and cables. Astounding.
great article here :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33780.html