Virginia Tech's G5 Supercomputing Cluster Faster Still, Back Up To #3

Mac fans, Apple watchers, supercomputer users, and most of the rest of the tech and geek worlds have all been closely watching the grand experiment at Virginia Tech known as Big Mac. Wired News is reporting that the team running Big Mac, headed by Srinidhi Varadarajan, has boosted performance for the system up to 9.55 TFlops, and that's enough to boost their ranking back up to the third fastest system in the world. That's not so bad for a solution that cost a fraction of what most supercomputers cost, but Mr. Varadarajan says his team can eke out still more power

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