School of Computer Science

Seminar details - How OSX powered System X, the third fastest computer in the world

How OSX powered System X, the third fastest computer in the world

( Student Series )

Pascal Honore, School of Computer Science

Date and time: Tuesday 21st June 2005 at 11:15
Location: UG04, Learning Center

This talk will be about an odd idea: what would happen if you put a little over 1000 Macs in a room and plugged them together? Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan and al. decided to find out the answer and the result has been very impressive. They built nothing more than the world's third fastest computer and the first academic machine to break the 10 Teraflop barrier. I will cover the history of this project and the current use of System X.