[Barney59]

..."That's what makes a Cray a Cray." ----

Ah, yes BUT have you seen what those tricky programmers have made (actually a year ago it was released but I digress)?

http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/

Virginia Tech bought 1100 Xservers, clustered them using XGrid and immediately became the 3rd fastest computer in the world...


Check out their server support pages for the various options on clustering.

[Hoplite]

The Cray's CPU's crunch faster than a G5 does:

504 CPU Cray X1 = 5,895 GFlops, or 11.70 GFlops per CPU.

2200 2.3MHz G5s = 12,250 GFlops, or 5.568 GFlops per CPU

My 1.8 MHz G5 = (RAverage) .27 GFlops, if my ~ 4 Hrs per 3.87 TFlop Seti@Home work unit processing speed is any indication.

I feel so slow.