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Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« on: October 12, 2003, 09:08:40 PM »
A G5 supercomputer!

Virginia Tech built there own supercomputer for only $5 million out of 1,100 brand new Apple G5s.

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It is capable of 17.6 trillion floating point operations per second, with a combined storage capacity of 176 terabytes. Each individual G5 is a dual processor, 2GHZ machine with 4GB of memory.


Ok, neither OS would be liable to make much use of them, but it caught your attention, right? :)
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2003, 09:13:50 PM »
Very hot, yes.
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2003, 09:26:31 PM »
doesn't the fact that "the program cannot be stopped" scare you a little?  :-o

Dear Hyperion / Genesi

Will your OS be available on Big mac in time for Christmas 03?  :-D
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2003, 10:05:56 PM »
I'd like mine "Super Sized". :-D
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2003, 11:24:45 PM »
>17.5 Trillion FP / second

Hello
Where do they get this number?
AFAIK their target is only 500 Million FP/second.
On the rank of top 500 machines, the system
will be in 190th.
Is there any REAL Benchmark result?
The fastest computer in the world is 35 TFP/s.
I wonder how they can outrun other super computers
with larger number of Alphas, Xeons and Opterons.
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2003, 11:48:01 PM »
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>17.5 Trillion FP / second


Which game? :-)
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2003, 11:51:58 PM »
If they can afford all those G5s... surely they can spare one for me?  :-D
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2003, 04:35:52 AM »
Sure, sign up for one of their PhDs and I'm sure they'll be very happy to let you use them ;-)
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2003, 07:21:16 AM »
Don't fell B.B., or he'll be contacting them to suggest a little (or, mayby BIG) game of PegPong -- then, he'll have his favourite code-writers O/T to do a MOS-emulation layer for Virginia Tech!!
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2003, 07:34:01 AM »
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AFAIK their target is only 500 Million FP/second.

Yeah, but they turned vSync off... :-D
Mike beat me to it...

Seriously, though, it doesn't matter.  It's FAST! :-o
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Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2003, 08:16:02 AM »
I want to play Quake3 with 500000 fps on that machine.
Ha ha couldn't resist.
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