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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Charles
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:10 AM
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Subject: [Sndbox] Supercomputer On The CheapSupercomputer On The Cheap
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A home-made supercomputer, put together from off-the-shelf PCs for about $5 million, is about to be ranked as one of the world's fastest. The Virginia Tech supercomputer was made in about a month from 1,100 Apple Macintosh computers, said Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains a listing of the world's 500 fastest machines, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Apple-based supercomputer, which is powered by 2,200 IBM microprocessors, was able to compute at 7.41 trillion operations a second, a speed surpassed by only three other ultra-fast computers. Assembled by faculty, technicians and students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the machine is shaking up the world of high performance computing, where the fastest machines usualy cost from $100 million to $250 million and take several years to build.Charles Mims
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