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Big Mac (Supercomputer) System X The "Big Mac" or Terascale Cluster is a supercomputer assembled in 2003 by US university Virginia Tech under the supervision of Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan. The "Big Mac" is a cluster of 1,100 dual-processor Apple Power Macintosh G5 computers. It is notable for its relatively low cost of just over 5 million dollars and high performance (10.3 teraflops) as well as its short build time of about six months. The Terascale Cluster has a good price-performance ratio. It falls only behind Japan's Earth Simulator (35.8 teraflops) and the ASCI Q supercomputer (13.9 teraflops) in raw power. Srinidhi Varadarajan believes that further tuning could boost performance by another 10 percent. See also External links
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