More on Virginia Tech!

[cahult]

This article tells more about the super computer VT has put together:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/3862

Good article but I must say the writer looks pretty dull.

[Laukev7]

Imagine a beowulf... *thunk!* Ow! that hurts!

2nd most powerful cluster in the world!

Imagine playing Warcraft 3 on that thing...

[M51DPS]

Forget Warcraft, think of how awesome Pong would be . . . or playing the ultimate game of Tetris. That little ball flying around with 2000 FPS . . .

[ October 12, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

[mushrooomprince]

thanks cahult for keeping us up to date on the vtech supercomputer cluster.

[Laukev7]

Looks like Apple is interested in expanding their market...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41450

[mushrooomprince]

quote: Looks like Apple is interested in expanding their market...

I don't think apple is going out of business anytime soon  

but i could sort of sense that something was going on at apple in the ways of expanind their market.

[Laukev7]

quote: I don't think apple is going out of business anytime soon

I bloody hope not! I want to switch next year, when I start Uni.

[Pissed_Macman]

Dayom...   :eek:

[cahult]

Anyone wanna speculate on what this XGrid thing is?

[jasonlane]

Grid based Architecture. Scalable distributed (virtualised) computing architecture. Grid based architectures are nothing new but if this in-fact what is being referred to here, it would be interesting to see Apples take on it.

[Laukev7]

I think this is somehow going to involve Rendezvous technology. Their Xcode is already going to take advantage of distributed computing., so I guess Xgrid is a logical step forward.

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Imagine a beowulf... *thunk!* Ow! that hurts!

2nd most powerful cluster in the world!

Imagine playing Warcraft 3 on that thing...

2nd most powerful computer in the world... its the most powerful home brew super computer.
Thats not the greatest thing though.
The top Super Computer in Japan cost 350 million
The old second best cost 250 million
The new second best aka thge G5 Super Cluster cost..... 5.5Million

Now is Apple really that expensive?

I love how they use Panther on it... Windows certainly can't cluster that many computers.  So they were able to avoid the comlexities of Linux.. yay.  Oh wait, this is a supercomputer... but an easy one.  With shitloads of big name consumer software.