Virginia Tech today announced that its rebuilt “System X” supercomputer cluster, which consists of 1,100 Xserve G5s, is now operating at 12.25 teraflops–an increase of almost two teraflops over the original system’s 10.28 teraflops. “Virginia Tech will learn of its new ranking when the list is unveiled in November of this year at SuperComputing 2004 in Pittsburgh,” said Srinidhi Varadarajan, the lead designer of the system.
Read MoreWhile many are looking forward to iPod announcements tomorrow, several MacMinute readers around the world are more concerned with an expansion of Apple’s iTunes Music Store (iTMS). Apple has said numerous times that it will expand the store beyond the US, UK, France and Germany before the end of October.
Read MoreVelan Software today announced the release of Fast DVD Copy 3, a new version of its Mac OS X application that allows users to copy DVDs, audio CDs, PlayStation 2 games, DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. Featuring an easy one-click copy interface, Fast DVD Copy 3 is a free upgrade from version 1.x or 2.x. For new users, the application is priced at US$99.95. A free trial version is also available.
Read MoreWith his “tongue occasionally in cheek,” MSNBC’s Philipp Harper has posted “History’s 10 greatest entrepreneurs.” Not suprisingly, Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made the list. “Apple’s two Steves weren’t the first Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to launch a billion-dollar business from a Palo Alto garage — Hewlett and Packard were there before them — but they were the first to democratize computing by creating a machine whose use was so wonderfully intuitive that even technophobes embraced it.
Read MoreMerrill Lynch said today that Apple is likely to introduce two new iPods by the first half of 2005. “We believe Apple could introduce a flash memory-based iPod in the first quarter of 2005,” the firm said in a research note. “The new iPod would signal a departure from the thinking that an iPod should hold all a person’s songs. We estimate that Apple might be able to charge $149 for a 256 MB (60 song) unit.
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