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[elixe]

It's only a measly 1.4 teraflops, but ... available now:)....

The computer uses 288 opterons and is very inexpensive ($ 23 M).

The number 7 supercomputer on the current list is built from 1100 Apple XserveG5 units. (12.25 TFlops).

Each unit has dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC 970FX processors, 4 GB ECC DDR400 (PC3200) RAM.

Here’s the XserveG5 architecture.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/architecture.html

System built by Virginia Tech.

The Xserve units go for ~$3000 in single quantities. (About $3 million for the Apple boxes).

Note that the Cray unit would rank about 200 on the list.

A little trivia for the morning. ;-)