At 12.25 Teraflops, Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 Cluster Super Computer Placed 7th

2004–09November 9, 2004Dana BaggettApple hardware
on the current list of the 500 world's fastest super computers according to this PC World article. IBM placed first with its super computer built for the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory out of 2.2GHz PowerPC (read "G5") CPUs at 71 teraflops. IBM's machine beat out Japan's Earth Simulator which has held first place with 35 teraflops for two years. IBM also built four of the top ten. Mac rules! [Dana Baggett]


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