Big Mac
Virginia Tech
links 1,100 Apple G5 towers together and makes the world's most powerful homebuilt system. 17.6 trillion floating point operations per second, 176 terabyte storage. "Running 1,100 computers in a 3,000-square-foot area sends the air temperature well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat is so intense that ordinary air conditioning units would have resulted in 60-mph winds. Specialised heat exchange cooling units were built that pipe chilled water into the facility."
* Ray, 10/12/2003 04:53:54 PM
