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Big Mac might get #2 spot

The brand new “Big Mac” supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be the second most powerful supercomputer on the planet, according to preliminary numbers.

Early benchmarks of Virginia Tech’s brand new supercomputer — which is strung together from 1,100 dual-processor Power Mac G5s — may vault the machine into second place in the rankings of the worlds’ fastest supercomputers, second only to Japan’s monstrously big and expensive Earth Simulator.

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Posted in Technology. See also: 10.28 teraflops | ‘Big Mac’ details | The Gamesters of Triskelion | NASA better get cracking | [From Usenet: 2.18.99 0000] .

By Michael Hanscom
October 16, 2003

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    Word has been circulating about the supercomputer Virginia Tech built out of 1100 dual processor G5 computers. Now we are getting an idea of just how fast it is. The brand new “Big Mac” supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be

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