[angelmb]

NY Times

Hum, what if Apple marketing folks use that fact, we could read: 'from the makers of world's fastest supercomputer...'

Please complete the sentence

[iREZ]

Apple G5 by IBM ad's similar to HPiPod by Apple seem inevitable. Just kidding.

[the_glassman]

The thing that bothers me, for some reason I can't find either one of the G5 Super Computers on the list?

[fireside]

you'd think that if they were serious about winning they'd win with more than .15 teraflops.

[faragbre967]

Originally posted by fireside:
you'd think that if they were serious about winning they'd win with more than .15 teraflops.

They said that the next one they're making is going to have 130,000 processors compared to the 16,000 that beat the Japanese. That's ****ing crazy. They are serious about it, they were just testing what they could do.

[olePigeon]

They're 500Mhz PowerPC 440s.

[MacGorilla]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
They're 500Mhz PowerPC 440s.

And they have better graphic cards than the new iMac I bet!

[Nodnarb]

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
And they have better graphic cards than the new iMac I bet!

Good one. Original too!
And not at all annoying yet...

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by the_glassman:
The thing that bothers me, for some reason I can't find either one of the G5 Super Computers on the list?

I read on /. that when they took the original closer down to replace it with the new G5 XServes they missed the window to submit a run and thus failed to make the list this time around.

Apple got it's video, VT got ti's press and computer I doubt either party cares a whole lot about it anymore.

oh, and although I have not read the article I doubt they had any video cards at all.

[Brass]

Originally posted by juanvaldes:
I read on /. that when they took the original closer down to replace it with the new G5 XServes they missed the window to submit a run and thus failed to make the list this time around.

Apple got it's video, VT got ti's press and computer I doubt either party cares a whole lot about it anymore.

oh, and although I have not read the article I doubt they had any video cards at all.

They've just replaced all the XServes with 2.3 GHz models too, so that should help a bit.

As for the other bigger XServe cluster (COLSA/Army/Whatever), they are not using a fast interconnect system - only standard GB Ethernet. So it may not rate as highly as some people would expect. They decided that fast interconnect was not essential for them because of the type of processing they are planning to do (highly parallel, with little interaction between processes required). And a fast interconnect system can add a LOT of cost to setting up a cluster.

[Krusty]

Looking back a few years (pre-1997), its hard to believe I'd be saying this but ... GO BIG BLUE !!!. Glad our favorite fruit company has aligned itself with the kickin'-ist @ssin-ist boys on the block.

[Truepop]

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