According to The Register:
Terra Soft, the company behind the Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux PowerPC distros has released a supercomputer cluster based on Appleis iMac. Theyire teaming up with Marathon Computers of Nashville Tennessee, who have been building Apple PowerPC-based racks for several years.
[…] And it makes perfect sense. The Power chipis floating point performance is commendably high, particularly in using the Altivec co-processor, and as the system boards are produced in volume they are relatively much cheaper than Power boards from IBM. And Black Lab Linux.
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