--- In asacmug@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Elwell <kdelwell@m...> wrote:
>
>The power supply was another huge challenge. The supercomputer uses
the same
>amount of electricity as 3,000 average sized homes. "
>
Yet another reason the thing wasn't built in California :-)

The timing couldn't have been better. At the same time, the
University of Texas announced their Dell cluster - a 300-node
"puny" setup that produces less than one-fifth the Teraflops
of the G5 cluster (affectionately known as "Big Mac").

http://www.appleturns.com/episode/?id=4266

To add insult to injury, the Dell cluster probably cost more.

Alex