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Monday, November 17, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Top 500 supercomputers: Apple G5 supercluster in third place -- Comment()
The TOP500 List for November 2003 is available. This list will be announced this week at the SC2003 conference at Phoenix, Arizona. The Apple G5 dual supercluster at Virginia Tech (see some background) is thus officially the third fastest supercomputer on Earth. The listed Rmax speed is 10.3 teraflop/s. And who is listed as the vendor? "Self-made." (The next self-made system is in position 63.) Update: Here is the press release on the top-500 list.
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Making equations on Mac OS X -- Comment()
Equation Service 1.0 generates mathematical equations for Keynote and other similar programs on Mac OS X. Thanks for Doug Rowland for writing the software. The package uses pdflatex for typesetting, so you need to have TeX installed. Here is a sample:
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