RE: Fastest in world?
RE: Fastest in world?
- Subject: RE: Fastest in world?
- From: MUG NEWS <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 06:56:54 -0400
FYI: Virginia steps into the lead again...
My brother Joe Showker posted this last night:
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Not just pretty pictures and cute sounds on this one...
can you say "electronics and computational chemistry?"
Just got off the phone with Senator Allen's Western Virginia
contact person... he was so excited about this he called me
on his way home from Roanoke.
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
University plans to connect 1,100 units
Va. Tech aims for computer ranking
Tech President Charles Steger said that the computer cluster
could rank among the Top 10 in the academic world.
By KEVIN MILLER
THE ROANOKE TIMES
VIRGINIA TECH plans to spend $5 million building a supercomputer
that could rank among the most powerful in the academic
world, university officials announced Tuesday.
Apple Computer is shipping about 1,100 of the company's
G5 Power Macs - a dual-processor computer being billed as the
world's fastest personal computer - to Tech during the next month.
Tech engineers and computer scientists then hope to connect, or
"cluster," the G5s to create a supercomputer capable of
handling massive calculations needed in such fields as
nanoscale electronics and computational chemistry.
Read more....
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story154706.html
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An exciting aspect of this is, probably within two years
those computers will flow into the VA State "Surplus" system,
and show up at the VA Tech Auction, just an hour from here.
In August we bought four high-end G4 "QuickSilver" towers at
auction for around $400 each. Some nice computer "recycling"
:-)
Fred
Fred Showker
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