http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/configurations.available.with.up.to.256.sockets/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/sgisml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />SGI has introduced the Altix UV, a new series of supercomputers geared for large databases or analysis operations. The computers are based on Intel's Nehalem platform, with support for configurations utilizing quad-, six, or eight-core Xeon CPUs. Devices can be scaled to integrate up to 2,048 cores, with architectural provisioning for up to 262,144 cores.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/configurations.available.with.up.to.256.sockets/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/21/vt.installs.mac.cluster/ <img align='left' src='http://electronista.macnn.com/content/0704/xeon5300.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />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.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/21/vt.installs.mac.cluster/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/09/ibm.roadrunner/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/ibmroadrunner.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />IBM today announced it will commission a $100 million hybrid supercomputer, the world's fastest, codenamed Roadrunner, to the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The supercomputer is claimed to be able to perform 1,000 trillion operations per second, or one petaflop. According to IBM, the array has the same computing power as 100,000 of todayís fastest laptop comput... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/09/ibm.roadrunner/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:30:00 GMT