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You forgot to add that they're better suited for...
Posted by Blobakazeke (more from Blobakazeke) on Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:50:51
In Reply to: All alphabet soup aside,, Rafe, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:16:19
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....scientific and technical applications, also. Here's a bit from a test involving clusters of G5's used at Virginia Tech' compared to Itaniums and Opterons:
"Why did you use the G5 instead of the Opteron or Itanium?
Both are fairly nice, but they're expensive. First, it didn't pass the price/performance ratio test. Opteron doesn't do what the G5 does. 4Gflops at peak, the G5 is twice that. The Itanium is phenomenally efficient, but only at 1.5Ghz, not the 2Ghz. The #4 is a 8.6Terafllop Itanium II cluster (on 2000 procs)....
....It certainly is time to forget the notion that Apple hardware is more expensive than other brands. When comparing similarly configured high-end systems, Apple may turn up cheaper, because a lot of the required functionality comes as options on other systems.
....The new system, which went online toward the end of last year and which Virginia Tech said was the most powerful supercomputer at any university in the world at the time...."
It really makes me laugh when I read comments like dmz789's, who says Mac's are for beginners and intermediate users, but if you want to go deep..." It think it's dmz789 who is in a little bit too deep ;^)
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Terascale Computing at Virginia Tech'
Posts in this Thread:
- OT Considering "the switch", Eric, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:26:42
- and dont forget...ngk's suck too. so does mtl n/m, chrisx, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:52:03
- Did it 2 years' ago. Never looked back..., Jo k, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:01:11
- Re: OT Considering "the switch" (REAL LONG), Tom Young, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:22:07
- Re: OT Considering "the switch", scottg, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:05:01
- All niche application are for Windows., dmz789, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:58:01
- SAAB & Mac, Rob in Atlanta, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:36:13
- No real downside, but, Noel, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:15:29
- There is no such thing as perfection when it...., Blobakazeke, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:55:16
- depends...., chrisx, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:36:19
- Re: OT Considering "the switch", TML , Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:33:11
- check out the mac mini, Trev, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:49:30
- Re: OT Considering "the switch", Rafe, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:32:40
- Doesn't the whole computer virus issue go away with, John_Asp, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:18:08
- Just a matter of time as OSX gets more popular..., Scott Paterson , Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:27:08
- What's a computer virus? :) nm, Rafe, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:53:03
- 16 Years of Macs - Never a Virus - No Antivirus n/m, Rob in Atlanta, Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:28:47
- pretty much..., Scott Paterson , Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:02:09
- Re: Doesn't the whole computer virus issue go away wit, matt 94 aero, Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:57:56
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