Re: Pixar using G4s &G5s?
Jason Kim <[email protected]>
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On Feb 25, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Stephen wrote: > Do you have any references to back up that claim? I think he's referring to the G5 cluster built recently by Virginia Tech -- it scored third among the world's supercomputers for a fraction of the cost (see top500.org). It edged out a Xeon cluster with a few hundred more processors, so it seems that the G5 is a reasonable competitor among today's top workstation CPUs (unlike the G4). > Please excuse the suspicion, but I've just waged war with some > MacHeads, > and we all know how "religious" they get about their computers. Don't > we? I use Macs to, but a computer to "moi" is just a tool. Well, it takes two to tango. For every Mac zealot out there, there's someone on the other side of the fence who's just as fervent. There's no need to be so argumentative if you're truly platform agnostic. -Jason ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click