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Virginia Tech is the recipient of the 2004 Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Award in Science. The award was presented Monday evening at a black tie event at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. “Apple nominated Virginia Tech for its development of a 2,200-processor supercomputer with a cluster of 1,100 Power Mac G5 computers.

Virginia Tech’s “X” supercomputer, built with 1,100 Power Mac G5s, isn’t the only large collection of Mac used at the university — its new math facility houses more than 550 flat-panel iMacs. “In what used to be a five-and-dime store, a 60,000-square foot space has been converted into Virginia Tech’s Math Emporium, a state-of-the-art computer lab that serves 7000 math students each school year.

Virginia Tech confirmed Tuesday that it will use 1,100 Power Mac G5s as part of a supercomputer cluster now under construction. “The new cluster is designed to make its way into the rankings of the world’s largest supercomputers, a list that currently has no Macs,” reports CNET News.com.