Virginia Tech Upgrades to 2.3GHz Xserves
According to AppleInsider and a column at USA Today, the System X supercomputer at the Virginia Tech Terascale Computing Facility has been upgraded to Apple Xserve Dual G5s running at 2.3GHz, up from 2.0GHz.
The cluster consists of 1100 Apple Xserve G5s, each with 4 GB RAM, and was previously upgraded in January from Power Mac G5s to Xserves.
Apple still describes the Xserve G5 as running only up to 2.0GHz, although specs in a leaked graphic in January showed 2.3GHz. The 2.3GHz version was reportedly made available exclusively to Virginia Tech.
The cluster consists of 1100 Apple Xserve G5s, each with 4 GB RAM, and was previously upgraded in January from Power Mac G5s to Xserves.
Apple still describes the Xserve G5 as running only up to 2.0GHz, although specs in a leaked graphic in January showed 2.3GHz. The 2.3GHz version was reportedly made available exclusively to Virginia Tech.
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96 months ago
Category: Apple Hardware
Link: Virginia Tech G5 supercomputer upgraded to 2.3GHz Xserves
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Link: Virginia Tech G5 supercomputer upgraded to 2.3GHz Xserves
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96 months ago
This is a good day for Mac supercomputing. Maybe Virginia Tech's cluster will hit 12 teraflops with this upgrade. Over time, I can see this growing to 15, 20, 30, 40 teraflops as Apple releases new XServes. By the time it hits 40 teraflops - bye bye #1 spot for the Earth Simulator!
96 months ago
According to the Apple Web site, the COLSA cluster can reach 25 teraflops, so Big Mac isn't even the biggest Mac cluster anymore.
96 months ago
According to the Apple Web site, the COLSA cluster can reach 25 teraflops, so Big Mac isn't even the biggest Mac cluster anymore.
I'm not surprised by this, given that the COLSA cluster has more XServes in it than Big Mac. Just imaging what COLSA will be able to do once it's upgraded to the 2.3 GHz XServes!
96 months ago
Come on Apple get your freaking act together, release the updated Xserves to the general public!!
96 months ago
I want to see official results in the top500 list. Wow, looking back just 2 years ago, apple didn't even make the list, now entering .... it's 2 attempts are making at least the top 3. Amazing. I do want to see the #1 machine on the list a cluster of macs ... drewl.
96 months ago
i really hope they are getting new processors and not entirely new machines...
VT tuition must be going up ;)
(^^it's a joke people...)
reality
VT tuition must be going up ;)
(^^it's a joke people...)
reality
96 months ago
Come on Apple get your freaking act together, release the updated Xserves to the general public!!
...because they're just tripping over piles of tens of thousands of the 2.3GHz chips, right?
96 months ago
Maybe that's why the PowerMac went from 2.0 to 2.5 because the 2.3 part was spoken for.
96 months ago
I guess they get the special treatment because they are so publicly visible?
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