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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
This is easy: just use Macs. The University of Texas, your editor's beloved alma mater, recently announced the unveiling of the most powerful supercomputer in Texas. The "Lonestar" cluster uses 300 Dell servers and "gives UT scientists and engineers the power of more than 3 trillion computer operations per second, or 3 teraflops." [Note: 3.7, actually] They'll be adding more Dells next year and plan to spend $38 million over five years. But just take a look at what's going on in Blacksburg, Virginia ... As this BBC article reveals, the new Virginia Tech supercomputer (unofficially called "Big Mac"), a cluster of over 1,000 Power Macintosh G5s, already delivers 17.6 teraflops , and the installation was completed in only a couple of months for something in the neighborhood of $5 million. As many of you may know, what is now a de facto northern suburb of Austin, Texas is home to Dell Computers, Inc. In the world of corporate and political high-rollers running the show from Texas to D.C., $38 million might not seem like much to spend to do a favor for your buddies. But we're fighting mad: the University of Texas is a fabulous school, but they just got taken to the cleaners. Virginia Tech's "Big Mac" blows Lonestar out of the digital pond with four to five times the computing power for less than one-seventh the cost.
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