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Virginia Tech building supercomputer out of 324 Mac Pros

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Virginia Tech, which originally built the Xserve G5-based "System X," is building a new supercomputing cluster out of 324 Mac Pros. VT's Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan spoke with Ars about the system's tech specs and research purposes.Read More...

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