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From: Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.ne
To: All
Subject: Re: VT building custom supercom
Date:Tue, July 29, 2008 11:27 PM


In article <ae369$488ddede$12650@news.teranews.com>,
"Edwin" <crab@pple.com> wrote:

> "Mike" <mike@nononccfaba.org> wrote in message
> news:mike-08C474.15124024072008@netnews.comcast.net...
> > http://tinyurl.com/5tqkbf
>
> When all is said and done Mac OS X will still have fewer supercomputer
> installations than even Windows does, and still be so far down on the Top
> 500 list that only an Apple fan boy will notice it.
>
>
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Really? The projected performance of the new system is 29 teraflops
(IIRC). According to the latest top500.org list, that would rank it
about 67 in the world.

Hence the quote about the system's "performance" ranking it in the top
100.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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