Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5 314
An anonymous reader writes "Virginia Tech officially announced that they will be migrating their G5 Supercomputer from PowerMac G5s to Xserves.
According to the article, the Xserve G5s will reduce power consumption, heat production and decrease the system size by a factor of three. The pricing of the upgrade is still being determined, and according to Srinidhi Varadarajan, they are working on getting "very good homes" for the PowerMac G5s which will be replaced."
Very good homes... (Score:5, Funny)
Good homes? (Score:5, Funny)
Can EBay be slashdotted? I guess we'll find out now!
jgaynor (Score:5, Funny)
Where do I sign up... (Score:4, Funny)
Heh.
Screw it, just gimme a G5!
drop shipment to redmond (Score:0, Funny)
A friend of mine had a great idea about this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Upgrade cost (Score:3, Funny)
Jay (=
damn them for ruining my joke (Score:5, Funny)
Now Accepting orphan G5's (Score:2, Funny)
There, they can spend the day happily puttering away in my new (soon-to-be) G5 cluster, working merrily at finding ways to improve the human condition, advancing understanding of the universal truths, and produce superior pr0n...
Re:a nice incentive (Score:5, Funny)
Keep your eye on the ball (Score:5, Funny)
Or a supercomputer that the football team can spell. "G5" is shorter than "Pentium".
These G5s are too snooty now... (Score:5, Funny)
"No offense, but after running thermal dynamics equations, your, how do you call it, 'leet' Photoshops skills are somewhat beneath me. I'm looking for something that will stretch my thinking, not bore me to tears. I don't think I'm right for you. Perhaps a Blueberry iMac would be more your speed. Yes, a beige G3 with 64 megs of ram and os 8.1 should handle your AOL sessions just fine. I'll continue my search. Thanks for your time."
Re:Now Accepting orphan G5's (Score:1, Funny)
what exactly are you planning on doing to these poor G5's to produce this "superior pr0n" of yours
i mean, i like my powerbook and all, but....
Re:Well duh? (Score:3, Funny)
I mean really, for a community that mothballs GFX 5900's because the 5950s came out...do we have to ask?
Re:So what did they ever compute? (Score:3, Funny)
Surprising! (Score:2, Funny)
1U units & wiring (Score:2, Funny)
More servers in a smaller space has a lot of economic advantages, but have you ever tried to unplug anything in the middle of a rack stacked full of 1U servers? My hands don't fit. It takes about half an hour to finagle something in or out. The real reason our jobs are going over seas isn't because labor is cheaper. It's because they need the small hands of 3rd world children to do cable management.
Re:These G5s are too snooty now... (Score:3, Funny)
"I'm very sorry, Mr. G5, but your education is simply not relevant to the job you are applying for. It says here you are running Mac OS X 10.2.6, but we need someone with Mac OS X 10.2.5 experience.
Thanks for stopping by."
Re:Has anyone else heard..... (Score:5, Funny)
SORRY -- I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE 3RD FASTEST CLUSTER IN THE WORLD.
Joking aside, who cares how loud it is when its this fast? I'm a very big fan of quiet personal computers, but when designing for raw power, I think I'd actually like it to sound like an earthquake when it runs. It's just more impressive that way.
From the Apple Store Higher Ed Inst. Purchase... (Score:5, Funny)
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
512MB DDR400 ECC SDRAM - 2x256
80GB ADM (1x80GB Serial ATA)
Mac OS X Server, 10-seat License
6-8 weeks
$2,499.00
Subtotal $2,748,900.00
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Re:These G5s are too snooty now... (Score:3, Funny)
Just don't give one to this kid (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Upgrade cost (Score:2, Funny)
2. Get listed on top500.org
3. ???
4. Profit!