Big Mac
November 10th, 2003
Wow. This story is really quite impressive. It gives details on the Power Mac G5 supercomputer cluster formed by people at Virginia Tech. They bought 1,100 of the new G5 Macs, connected them in a massive cluster, and, within just a few weeks, writing their own software, were able to create from them the world’s third-largest supercomputer, at just a fraction of the cost of a supercomputer of similar size and power.
Shows what’s possible to do at the grass roots–and what potential Macs have, their power and ease of use, in the face of all the nay-saying criticism about them.