Virginia Tech Cluster Upgrade Status

[Henjie]

According to Virginia Tech's Terascale Computing Facility website, assembly of the System X upgrade (1,100 dual-proc 2GHz Power Mac G5s to 1,100 dual-proc 2GHz Xserve G5s) has been completed. Story here.

I guess we can look forward to having it in the Top 500 list again (Nov '04). But unless VT manages to squeeze out an additional 4,000GFlops (Rmax) from the cluster, it won't be able to reclaim its previous no. 3 position.

Nov '03 list (System X at no. 3) vs. the latest list (System X not listed due to the upgrade).




Upgrade Gallery (Xserve G5s)
Initial Project Gallery (Power Mac G5s)


~Henjie

[El CaMOTe]

Yeah, like what happens to all those old Dual 2.0gig G5 Towers ??

Hope somebody 'por kilos' it and sells it for cheap on eBay to us all 'poor Pinoys !!' Then the bottom of the 2nd hand G5 will drop !!

:sick::wound::love:

[Henjie]

Originally posted by El CaMOTe
Yeah, like what happens to all those old Dual 2.0gig G5 Towers ??

Hope somebody 'por kilos' it and sells it for cheap on eBay to us all 'poor Pinoys !!' Then the bottom of the 2nd hand G5 will drop !!

From this older thread:

The 1,100 dual-2GHz Power Mac G5s originally used in the VT cluster were already sold a few months back, minus the Infiniband PCI cards and some of the extra RAM. Final config was near-stock except for the extra 512MB RAM for 1GB total. VT contracted MacMall to do the selling. They were sold for $2,799 each which was around $200 less than the price of a brand-new unit back then (early February). :-)


~Henjie

[El CaMOTe]

:blush: so much for the 'por kilo' theory, ... oh well, back to my Mac price dreamin':dry:

Cheers,