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Norway gets its first Xserve G5 cluster

updated 07:35 am EST, Fri February 13, 2004

Norwegian XServe cluster

The University of Bergen in Norway will be home to the first Xserve G5 cluster in that country, according to a (in Norwegian) posted on OfficeLine EDBergen, the Apple reseller that will be providing the four Xserve G5 systems. The cluster will be capable of performing 16 gigaflops per second and will be utilized by the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology to calculate protein sequences.

 
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4 ?

02/13, 07:48am reply

Pretty stiff competition for Virginia Tech...

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4?

02/13, 07:57am reply

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

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This is news

02/13, 08:16am reply

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

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OK, 4 is not impressive

02/13, 08:25am reply

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.

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4 Xserves? Whoop-de-do...

02/13, 09:06am reply

"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.

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gigaflops per second?

02/13, 09:09am reply

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

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I want a G5

02/13, 09:10am reply

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

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02/13, 09:11am reply

That's not a cluster that's a foursome

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Wow

02/13, 09:13am reply

"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.

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RIPE

02/13, 09:30am reply

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

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