Quote:
Originally Posted by kstarnes
OS X is certified Unix at the OS level.
XServe can be configured to run as many OS X Servers as you want - run all the time 24/7. Maybe I wasn't using the the correct "unix" terminology.
I know that Virginia Tech is running a cluster of over 1000 of the older G5 based XServes. It still may be the fastest supercomputer at any university, but I don't know the current status.
I found the link - 7th fastest supercomputer in the world as well:
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech2/
That seems high-end to me, or are we tripping over semantics?
Best,
Kurt |
1 478.2
596.4 Blue Gene/L eServer Blue Gene Solution
212992 (Power) IBM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2005
2 167.3
222.8 JUGENE Blue Gene/P Solution
65536 (Power)
IBM Jülich Research Centre
2007
3 126.9
172.0 Encanto SGI Altix ICE 8200
14336 (Xeon), InfiniBand
SGI New Mexico Computing Applications Center
2007
4 117.9
170.9 EKA Cluster Platform 3000
14240 (Xeon), InfiniBand
HP Computational Research Laboratories
2007
5 102.8
146.4 Cluster Platform 3000
13728 (Xeon), InfiniBand
HP Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment
2007
6 102.2
127.5 Red Storm Cray XT3
26569 (Opteron)
Cray Sandia National Laboratories
2006
7 101.7
119.4 Jaguar Cray XT4/XT3
23016 (Opteron)
Cray Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2006
8 91.3
114.7 BGW eServer Blue Gene Solution
40960 (Power)
IBM IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
2005
9 85.4
100.5 Franklin Cray XT4/XT3
19320 (Opteron)
Cray National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
2007
10 82.2
103.2 New York Blue eServer Blue Gene Solution
36864 (Power)
IBM Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory
2007
btw, that first second number, is the Terraflops
your vatech cluster packs 12.25
that's about 11% of the #10 on the above list
or 2% of the #1 in the list...
i dunno, as supercomputers go, it's not really doing so well now is it?