Being a HPC guy, I was interested in the interim Top500 list (available at http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.ps). The official list is posted on November 15th at the supercomputing conference in Seattle.
Anyway, I saw something that I didn't expect, and a whole lot I did... while IBM's BlueGene took a TON of spots at the top of the list, an interesting entry showed up:
A 3072 processor Apple XServe G5 2Ghz w/ Myrinet @ 16.180TF
Is this MACH5? I thought that MACH5 didn't use Myrinet? Anyone hear anything about this machine? Why only 3072 processors, where MACH5 is supposed to have 1560+ boxes?
Enough questions... if this is MACH5, check out the Apple writeup at: http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/
Anyway, I saw something that I didn't expect, and a whole lot I did... while IBM's BlueGene took a TON of spots at the top of the list, an interesting entry showed up:
A 3072 processor Apple XServe G5 2Ghz w/ Myrinet @ 16.180TF
Is this MACH5? I thought that MACH5 didn't use Myrinet? Anyone hear anything about this machine? Why only 3072 processors, where MACH5 is supposed to have 1560+ boxes?
Enough questions... if this is MACH5, check out the Apple writeup at: http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/