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Monday, Jul 21, 2008 10:50am
Virginia Tech installs 29-teraflop Mac cluster |
Virginia Tech has recently installed a new Mac-based supercomputing cluster, according to an announcement. The cluster is being used by the university's Center for High-End Computing Systems, and consists of 324 Mac Pros operating as servers, with eight cores apiece, for a total of 2,592 cores. The computers are networked together via a 40Gbps copper LAN connection.At 29 teraflops, the system is said to have been ranked among the 100 most powerful supercomputers in a June list compiled by Top500. CHECS says it intends to use the cluster for the development of new, power-aware computers, and ones with shared memory and/or distributed storage. |