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[Day Permalink] Thursday, September 16, 2004

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Apple shows off 1,500-strong Xserve cluster: "The cluster, called MACH5, was built by Colsa Corporation's Hypersonic Missile Technology Team to model hypersonic flight. It generates over 25 teraflops of raw processing power, enough to do in a second what a handheld calculator would take two million years to calculate."


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Evil geeks: "A battle between good and evil. With the emphasis on evil, because, let's face it, who wants to hear about bloody goody two-shoes coders? [...] So who was the most bad in the world of open source last month? And can we get them to do it again, for the cameras?" [via Boing Boing]