New and Noteworthy: Bowie State builds Xserve supercomputer; Linux creator switches to a Mac

Bowie State builds Xserve supercomputer Mirroring Virginia Tech's larger, top-ranked, Xserve based supercomputer, Bowie State University has built a $1 million supercomputer in cooperation with Apple. The "XSEED" consists of a 224-node cluster based on Apple's Xserve G5. Running Apple's Mac OS X Server operating system, each Xserve is equipped with dual 2GHz 64-bit G5 processors and is interconnected with a Myrinet 4 Gbit/sec switch. More.

Linux creator switches to a Mac CNET reports that the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, has switched his primary desktop computer to a Power Mac G5. Torvalds says "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970)--it's physically a regular Apple Mac, though it runs Linux [...] As to the why...Part of it is simply that I wanted to try something else, and I felt like there were enough people testing the x86 side that it certainly didn't need me. Part of it is that I personally believe there are two main architectures out there: Power and x86-64 are what _I_ think are the two most relevant ones, and I decided that I had to at least check the other side of it out seriously if I really believed that." More.

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