Costing of “Big Mac” Cluster

Cluster of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1100 dual-processor Macintosh G5 PCs achieved speeds on the order of 10 teraflops
put together in about a month and at a cost of just over $5 million
supercomputers in that class usually take a couple of years to construct and cost in the range of $100 million to $250 million

Cluster of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University