On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:45 pm, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 14 Oct 2003 at 10:59, William T Goodall wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3180872.stm
" Everyone would love a supercomputer but with a price tag of around $100m each they are not easy to come by.
Yes, and there's one made out of GameCubes. (indeed, they're pretty much ideal for clustered computing, and generate very little heat compared to other systems). Any high-performance computing device can be used to form a super computer.
This particular supercomputer is expected to make the top ten (maybe top five) fastest in the world. I've heard of a Playstation-2 based supercomputer, but it wasn't fast enough to be in the top 500.
Oh, and I'd suspect that those Mac's were running PowerPC Linux or a
They are running Mac OS X ...
UNIX varient rather than MacOS, but hey...
... which *is* a version of UNIX. (BSD)
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