It's in line to be the third fastest supercomputer in the world, sustaining a speed of 8.7 teraflops -- and it's built from off the shelf Macs. I kid you not. The VirginiaTech Terascale Cluster, consists of 1,100 Apple Macs, each with two 64-bit IBM CPUs. The whole system cost around $5m -- cheap in the world of supercomputing. Check out the current ranking of supercomputers.
Two Levels of Justice
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Upon hearing of the slap-on-the-wrist delivered to former MP Rahim Jaffer,
Kory Tenecyke, a former aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, remarked "It
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