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Old 03-15-2004, 06:34 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally posted by spived2
Yeah, let me just jump on that....

Sounds interesting though. What exactly would they be testing though? how fast they could open photoshop? 3dmark scores? I don't see how having a bunch of computers networked would make it a super computer...
Thats all a supercomputer is--a bunch of machines networked together. For example, the recent Virginia Tech supercomputer, which ranked in the top 10 fastest, was just a bunch of Apples networked together.
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