The 'Big Mac' Supercomputer Biz
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Thursday August 05 2004 @ 12:48PM EDT
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MacNewsWorld: The hardware was only $5.8 million -- 60 percent of the speed of Earth Simulator for 1.5 percent of its $400 million cost. "But what's really nice about the G5 pizza-box-size servers," Anthony C. DiRienzo, executive vice president at Colsa, says, "is how well they dissipate heat." Apple's engineering stood head and shoulders above the competition on this score.
Nobody was more surprised than executives at Apple on June 23, 2003. That's when scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University called to see if they could buy the first 1,100 PowerMac G5 desktop computers. Even though the G5 had been unveiled just hours earlier, the Virginia Tech team already knew it wanted the G5s, each fitted with two of IBM's new PowerPC 970 microprocessors, to build a world-class supercomputer.
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