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Isn't she a beauty?

srobert

srobert

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Wow!

Don't forget to watch the video of it being assembled. :eek:

http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/

Number-Two Supercomputer?

"According to the November 2003 Top 500 supercomputer list, it would rank second only to Japan's $350 million Earth Simulator computer at less than two percent of the cost," said DiRienzo. "We evaluated PC-based proposals from other vendors but none came close to delivering either the price, performance or manageability of the Apple Xserve G5."

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/34668.html
 

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“A single person using a hand-held calculator — without pausing to eat or sleep — would need more than two million years to calculate what the Apple supercluster can calculate in a single second.”
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I liked this part. Good for Apple:

COLSA’s new Apple supercluster has attracted the attention of NASA, other government agencies and commercial customers who visit COLSA to learn more about it.

“Everybody is interested in getting that kind of computational power,” Medeiros says. “We’ve been dedicated to our RDECOM customer since 1999, but we’re also interested in developing new customers.

“The cluster provides a way of developing that additional base.”
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"mach5" - what a wonderful name for it! :)

I always thought it was real funny how they probably first come up with a catchy abbreviation and then have to find out what it actually means :rolleyes:
 
slipper said:
“A single person using a hand-held calculator — without pausing to eat or sleep — would need more than two million years to calculate what the Apple supercluster can calculate in a single second.”
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Hehehe... that makes me think we need a TI calculator version of F@H... :)
 
“A single person using a hand-held calculator — without pausing to eat or sleep — would need more than two million years to calculate what the Apple supercluster can calculate in a single second.”

That's 63,072,000,000,000 (63.1 Trillion) times faster.. Does this surprise anyone at all?

I mean, we're talking about 1,566 G5s Vs 1 handheld calculator (of unknown type). One DP Xserve G5 would only be 40,275,862,068 (40.3 Million) times faster.

Comparing it to an unknown device? Ignoring the ridiculous quantity of processors? Sounds like an Apple standard benchmark to me!

Anyways where's this video everyone's talking about?
 
Apple seems to have removed the link to the video.

That's a shame. It was really cool.

I just went back through the history of web pages I visited today and found the link for the video, but when I tried it this time it didn't work. Instead I got another Apple page asking "Can't find what you're looking for? Maybe the link you used is no longer valid."

Bummer.
 
So that is where all the G5 chips went...

Hehe. I wonder if they would mind if we ran folding at home on it.
(New to that myself, few questions on it but it runs on the iMac)
 
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