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Virginia Polytechnic G5 cluster missing from the latest super computer ranking
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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I just saw this MacCentral article about the top 500 super computer ranking.
They talked about the reason why Virginia Polytechnic G5 cluster is missing from the super computer list altogether due to hardware upgrade (is that the PowerMac G5 -> Xserve G5 upgrade they talked about)?
Now, isn't Virginia Polytechnic originally rushed their cluster last year to make it into the top 500 list, because of university funding etc are indirectly related to the computing power the education institution it has? If so, how can Virginia Polytechnic pass such opportunity so easily this time??
Can someone explain it to me?
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IBM can't make 970fx processors fast enough (or at all).
970fx processors go in the new Xserves.
Apple can't ship Xserves without processors. 
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This was expected. Nothing to see here, move along now...
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
This was expected. Nothing to see here, move along now...
No, the bit I don't understanding is: is they are not on the list, you might not get additional research funding, right? Don't they want $$$$$? 
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Originally posted by veryniceguy2002:
No, the bit I don't understanding is: is they are not on the list
I think the keyword here is 'temporary' 
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Michael Dell must have sponsored the list!
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Who cares about this cluster, when we got the US army/Xserve cluster, which will be the second most powerful in the world. 
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Originally posted by PacHead:
Who cares about this cluster, when we got the US army/Xserve cluster, which will be the second most powerful in the world.
That's like rejecting your youngest brother in the family..
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Originally posted by Adam Betts:
That's like rejecting your youngest brother in the family..
He always was a good for nothing anyway!
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"Way to go Fed-Ex!"
/cheaper by the dozen.
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The cluster has been non operational at the time. So, not on the list
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