note BioGeek I'm a Linux guy, but I wouldn't mind being <a href="http://www.tcf.vt.edu/index.html">System X</a>, composed of <br /><br />1,100 <a href="http://www.apple.com/xserve/" target="_new">Apple Xserve G5</a> cluster compute nodes with the following specifications: <ul> <li>Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors</li> <li>4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM</li> <li>80 GB S-ATA hard disk drive</li> <li>One Mellanox Cougar InfiniBand 4x HCA</li> </ul> 4 <a href="http://www.apple.com/xserve/" target="_new">Apple Xserve G5</a> compile nodes: <ul> <li>Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors</li> <li>4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM</li> <li>3x250 GB S-ATA hard disk drive</li> </ul> 1 <a href="http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/" target="_new">Apple Xserve RAID</a> unit with 1 Xserve NFS servers with total available user storage of 2.7TB and operating at 12.25 teraflops. 455215 455215