University of Illinois to launch 640-node Xserve cluster
The University of Illinois is the latest institution to build a Mac-based supercomputer cluster. The university is currently finalizing the Turing Cluster, which is made up of with more than 600 Apple Xserves. “Located in the Digital Computer Laboratory, the Turing Cluster consists of 640 Apple Xserves, each with two 2GHz G5 processors and 4GB of RAM, for a total of 1280 processors. The primary network connecting the cluster machines is a high-bandwidth, low-latency Myrinet network from Myricom.
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