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oldmacfan
2004-09-03, 13:34
According to the linked article The SuperComputer at VT will be using/is using 1100 dual 2.3 GHZ XServes.

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P3377_0_1_0

So how did I miss this chunk of info before now?
DMBand0026
2004-09-03, 17:11
You probably missed it because we all did. As far as anyone knew they were receiving stock Xserves, not 2.3ghz.
Wrao
2004-09-03, 17:24
*does one high five*
oldmacfan
2004-09-04, 02:36
*does one high five*
I did two and I got the moron to email me back this morning.
bassplayinMacFiend
2004-09-07, 10:46
According to the linked article The SuperComputer at VT will be using/is using 1100 dual 2.3 GHZ XServes.

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P3377_0_1_0

So how did I miss this chunk of info before now?

It's funny you mention this because I remember an XServe clip supposedly snagged from the Canada Apple Store last January that showed them being 2.3GHz (anyone else remember this?). A couple weeks later the 2.0GHz XServes came out so IBM must not have kept up their speed agreement.
DMBand0026
2004-09-07, 11:48
Yeah, I remember that too. Made for quite the hoopla for a few days. Wild speculation galore. Some people even though it was aliens or something ;)
oldmacfan
2004-09-15, 13:52
Now the question should be this. Did the Army also get some special sauce?

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P3458_0_1_0
curiousuburb
2004-09-15, 15:17
Now the question should be this. Did the Army also get some special sauce?

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P3458_0_1_0

a supercluster of 1,566 64-bit, dual-processor Apple Xserve G5 servers.

Called MACH5 - an acronym for Multiple Advanced Computers for Hypersonics - the Apple cluster "gives us more than 60 times the computational power of our current production machine," says Medeiros. What used to take two months can now be done in a day. "A single person using a hand-held calculator - without pausing to eat or sleep - would need more than two million years to calculate what the Apple supercluster can calculate in a single second."

Now that's impressive.
Plus you avoid two million years of carpal tunnel. ;)
oldmacfan
2004-09-29, 20:47
Wow, what everyone else new 26 days ago is finally news at AI. Do we have a dropping the ball emoticon??? I can only wonder why this is now news.
DMBand0026
2004-09-30, 11:45
Because the other place sucks balls ;)

Anyone remember when we left for here and Kasper was all about taking an active roll in the site? :lol: That didn't happen. :lol:

Sorry...back OT