Dell's supercomputer. HA!

[cocoamix]

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/09/29/daily37.html

$38 million on Dell hardware gets you 3 teraflops.
What a joke.


the VT Apple G5 cluser = $5 million - 17 teraflops.




Notice anything funny about this pic of the Dell cluser people?

[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: cocoamix ]

[mushrooomprince]

One of those  guys is wearing an OS X t shirt.  WTF ?

[Windows_SuX_@$$]

Hah a Dell Person with an OSX Tee-shirt, He is probebly a mac ser but works for dell and gets big money

[Fett101]

It is possible to enjoy using more then one OS/PC Maker/Women  

[cahult]

So, that

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by cocoamix:
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/09/29/daily37.html
$38 million on Dell hardware gets you 3 teraflops.
What a joke.

That's actually incorrect. The Dell supercomputer cost about $3 mil to the school.

 

quote: "There are many more things that were needed to create ICES and establish a terascale distributed computing architecture at TACC. This point was made by TACC Director, Jay Boisseau, during the Lonestar dedication ceremony. The value of the specific computer referred to was approximately $3.0 million. And, no tuition funds were used in this process. Most of the money did not even come from UT. The package included $8M in discounts and donations from about 10 leading technology vendors, and over $15M from a generous foundation." And, she continued: "The VaTech number ONLY includes the actual computer, not the cost of the building, power, cooling, people, or anything else needed to actually operate it."
Source

Apple users play with numbers yet again.    

[Pissed_Macman]

Look at the expression on his face and his hands. He's obviously a spy for Apple giving out secret codes through his body language in that picture.

[Fett101]

In that case.... he's either saying "I'm A Gangsta" or "I shouldn't have had that last slice of pickled pigs feet pizza"

[Pissed_Macman]

Why are they all standing in those outhouses anyway?

[Zombie9920]

And 2xG5 CPU's can't even beat a single P4, a single Athon 64 or a Single Athlon FX at anything but Photoshop(which the 2xG5's get beat by the 2xOpterons).

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp

Oh, and before anyones cries foul about this being on PCWorld read the briefing under the benchmarks chart. In there it says "Tests on PCs performed by the PC World Test Center; tests on Apple systems performed by the Macworld Test Center". So that means there was no Bias in the testing. ;P

[cahult]

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[Refalm]

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[slave]

Ha, but do you think apple is going to take all that shit about the G5 being "the world's fastest personal computer" off their site?  Not bloody likely!

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by Refalm:

They actually do show the real world, and it shows that the G5 is expencive and slow.

Ummm... how so? Even by this chart the G5 ain't down by much. Not only that, it's deffinetly on-par with most high end consumer model systems. I also maintain what I said in previous discusions on the subject, I have seen bench marks going both ways, in all of them the G5 is either on-par, slightly ahead, or slightly behind.

So how is your statement here true?

[psyjax]

Im actually reading the test bed of applications they set up.

Premier, PS7, Word, and Quake III.

Premier? Adobe's video software is nutoriously slow on OSX not by apple's fault, but by Adobe's failure to optamize. Try using Final Cut Pro and see who gets smoked!

Word? WTF? WORD? Ya, I need speed for that. Shit I need to push a 300+ framerate to get that spreadsheet looking good. Fuck you! Comeon. Not to mention that Word is a bloated piece of shit. I could care less what a find and replace in word takes!

Quake III. I personaly am sick of this test, but 3D has more to do with your vid card than your processor. There comes a point where you don't gain much. Also, if 260+ FPS ain't good enugh for you, I don't know what to say. As far as I know, most monitor redraw hovered at around 80FPS.

I could cook up an equaly damning chart myself by picking some 'known' slow applications, and touting the G5's superiority.

My conlcusion, this article is full of baloney, and conducts a less than exaustive test with inconclusive, meaningless results.

[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax ]