News Supercomputer Spurs Scientific Computing on Macs

The Virginia-Tech Apple Super Computer (Big-Mac to it's friends) is slowly creaping up the super computer speed rankings. It's also showing the scientific community that Macs aren't just for publishing the latest paper or thesis. This from eWeek:

"SANTA CLARA, Calif.-A recent supercomputing coup for Apple Computer Inc. may help the computer maker make larger inroads into high-performance, scientific computing.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's supercomputer running 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s and announced last month already is attracting the attention of other academic institutions and offers to build commercial clones, said the project's director in an interview with eWEEK.com during the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference here.

A big part of the attraction is the supercomputer's ability to reach levels of performance that place it among the fastest clusters in the world at a relatively inexpensive cost of about $5 million, said Srinidhi Varadarajan, director of the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va."

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That's an hours drive from here.

*sits on hands*
Musn't... rob... supercomputer stash...