Thursday, October 16, 2003

"Big Mac" Could be World's Second-Most Powerful Computer

It seems some fellas from Virginia Tech strung together 1,100 Power Mac G5s and made them into a supercomputer... not just any supercomputer... possibly the world's second-most powerful computer on the planet...

The cost? A mere $5.2 million... Alot, you say? Well, most of the top ten supercomputers cost $40 million and up... and the world's most powerful computer (Japan's "Earth Simulator") costs a whopping $350 million... So, at a mere 1.4% of the cost of the world's most powerful, you could own what could be the world's second-most powerful... not bad...

Read the full article HERE

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