Virginia Tech Announces Supercomputer Plans 419
CousinVinnie writes "Previously noted in this Slashdot story, the administration of Virginia Tech has announced they're puchasing 1100 G5's (another story) in hopes to build a top-10 supercomputer by October 1. Tech will be spending $5.2 million over five years on the project, which should help it pull in more research money." Maybe VT can use the new computers to beef up their web site.
cray (Score:4, Funny)
You call this Postum?
[bashes a 5-feet high pile of paper]
Burns: You call this a tax return?
[bangs a CRAY with his cane]
Burns: You call this a supercomputer?
Performance comparisons... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
The only problem will be finding a desk big enough to fit the guys...
what are they going to name it? (Score:0, Funny)
deep-pink.
Re:Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Obligitory Troll (Score:5, Funny)
1) Itaniums are for pussies.
2) Go Apple!
3) Opterons still kick the G5's butt.
4) I can't wait to run doom3 on my backordered G5.
5) People griping about apples proprietary hardware and software, and how this cluster could have been built cheaper from oem parts, and ebay ethernet hubs.
6)Dumb lists summarizing other trolls.
Re:Apple ... supercomputer...? (Score:3, Funny)
What the hell do you do with 1100 mice? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe... (Score:3, Funny)
(Sigh) Quitters.
You should watch out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Argument for G5 here. (Score:1, Funny)
If so I'm switching platforms!!
Re:Performance comparisons... (Score:4, Funny)
Aren't both fruits that grow from trees?
How about comparing sea water and comets?
"speculation and rumor"?? On /.?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Lots of speculation and rumor, too, if you're into that sort of thing.
This is slashdot! We're all about speculation and rumor. Innuendo, too, especially on the weekends.
Oh, and sentence fragments.
The real news isn't the super computer (Score:3, Funny)
What will happen next, dogs and cats living together? Mass hysteria?
Re:What the hell do you do with 1100 mice? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is quite cool but... (Score:1, Funny)
OS X 10.3 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is quite cool but... (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, my old Macintosh 9600 had a 128-bit wide memory bus if you used identical ram in each of the 12!! RAM slots.
Re:What the hell do you do with 1100 mice? (Score:2, Funny)
Feed an army of robotic cats?
Time for a new icon (Score:3, Funny)
Re:what are they going to name it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is quite cool but... (Score:3, Funny)
infinity - 7.3 I think.
Re:This is quite cool but... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, like
One night, I was processing these gene sequences on my Itanium cluster, you know? When all of a sudden it went berserk, the screens started flashing, and, like, the whole result set just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good result set! I had to cram and resequence it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed thesis wasn't nearly as good, and I blame those Itaniums for the funding didn't get, and tenure I lost.
I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple G5 cluster. It's a lot nicer to work on than my old Itanium farm was, it hasn't let me down once, and my papers have all been really good.
Thanks, Apple.
Ellen Feiss, PhD
What da hell will make /. change its G4 thumbnail? (Score:1, Funny)