The Army Gets A Taste For Apple
Virginia Tech, a few months back, created a supercomputer with 1100 dual processor G5s. Well their supercomputer has fallen off the list while they wait for their upgrade to G5 XServes, but either way, the Army has taken notice. The Army is creating a G5 supercomputer of their own for different training operations, and is being created for them by their contractor, Colsa and will be called Mach5.
Colsa will use Mac OS X as the primary operating system, though it will evaluate other options including Red Hat Linux and Yellow Dog Linux, Whitlock added.
MACH 5, which stands for Multiple Advanced Computers for Hypersonic, G5, will occupy 42 racks and 600 square feet of floor space, said Anthony DiRienzo, a Colsa executive vice president. Apple was the winning bidder among six companies, DiRienzo said, declining to name the competitors.
Pretty cool huh? Well if you haven’t heard enough about this yet, you can be sure that you will hear a lot more about this in a week during the Steve Jobs’ keynote at the World Wide Development Conference.