October 30, 2003

Sometimes A Great Notion

Virginia Tech owns the third fastest supercomputer in the world. An assistant professor of computer science slapped 1,100 dual processor Mac G5's together for a mere 5.2 million dollars (including the cost of pizza and soda for the student volunteers) and voila, near instant supercomputer. The cost of supercomputing just came down by an order of magnitude. Maybe now weather forcasts and CFD will be accurate.

Posted by Kevin Murphy at October 30, 2003 12:13 PM | Technology
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