Nice, Virginia Tech xServed...

newnew
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
And ramping up for speed tests...



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  • Reply 1 of 15
    shetlineshetline Posts: 4,695member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by New

    And ramping up for speed tests...







    Okay... now where are the complaints that all of this costs millions of dollars, but still comes with a completely inadequate video card?
  • Reply 2 of 15
    Quote:

    Originally posted by shetline

    Okay... now where are the complaints that all of this costs millions of dollars, but still comes with a completely inadequate video card?



    two-shay!
  • Reply 3 of 15
    guarthoguartho Posts: 1,208member
    Now that's a render farm
  • Reply 4 of 15
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    I just can't get the frames fast enough over the DB9 serial port!
  • Reply 5 of 15
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Ladies and gents, I give you the apple baseline for DoomIII



    just wait till you see the linux cluster we recomend for best results....
  • Reply 6 of 15
    Quote:

    Originally posted by shetline

    Okay... now where are the complaints that all of this costs millions of dollars, but still comes with a completely inadequate video card?





    Speaking of which, how many FPS do you think that gets in UT2k4?
  • Reply 7 of 15
    I thought that the xServe G5s were supposed to have those giant air-intake holes in the front?



    Edit: They're Clusternode Xserve G5s.
  • Reply 8 of 15
    I thought erotic pictures were banned on these forums... and on that note, I'll be back in three minutes time.



    iDunno
  • Reply 9 of 15
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Gavriel

    I thought that the xServe G5s were supposed to have those giant air-intake holes in the front?



    Edit: They're Clusternode Xserve G5s.




    and there are a million fans across the top of the racks.
  • Reply 10 of 15
    newnew Posts: 3,244member
    But I can't get rid of the thought that all those optical drives are a bit of a waste...
  • Reply 11 of 15
  • Reply 12 of 15
    Quote:

    Originally posted by talksense101

    Is this one faster?

    http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/




    i believe so, cause the govt has more money than v tech
  • Reply 13 of 15
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Woah. Heck yeah. It's 25 Teraflops, compared to the 11? of VT.



    That plants an Apple supercomputer in slot number two, next to the Earth Simulator, of course, according to the latest Top 500 list: http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/
  • Reply 14 of 15
    chychchych Posts: 860member
    VT's supercluster totally trumps the gov't one in internode i/o, as it uses infiniband rather than gigE ethernet. Two different purposes for these two superclusters.



    Not sure how this translates on a linpack test...
  • Reply 15 of 15
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    According to Macrumors, not only has VTech been Xserved, but the Xserves used are 2.3GHz...
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