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A supercomputer built from 1,100 Macintosh PCs and assembled in less than a month by volunteers at Virginia Tech is now the world's third-fastest machine, according to computer experts meeting last week in Arizona.
Clocked at 10.3 trillion operations per second, the cluster of G5 Power Macs is the first Apple-based system to rank among the best.
The system, named "X" by Tech to celebrate its performance of more than 10 teraflops, cost roughly $7 million to build and maintain. Ahead of Tech's X is a $215 million Hewlett-Packard computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory that can complete 13.9 trillion operations per second.
The fastest machine is the Earth Simulator Center in Japan, which cost at least $250 million and can run 35.9 trillion operations per second.
Clocked at 10.3 trillion operations per second, the cluster of G5 Power Macs is the first Apple-based system to rank among the best.
The system, named "X" by Tech to celebrate its performance of more than 10 teraflops, cost roughly $7 million to build and maintain. Ahead of Tech's X is a $215 million Hewlett-Packard computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory that can complete 13.9 trillion operations per second.
The fastest machine is the Earth Simulator Center in Japan, which cost at least $250 million and can run 35.9 trillion operations per second.
