12.25 Teraflops for the new BigMac

VirginiaTech has completed installation, stabilization and validation test for the new cluster BigMac composed of 1100 xServeG5 Dual 2.3 GHz (thanks you Sylvain). Its raw computering performance now reaches 12.25 TFlops against 10.28 for the previous version. this cluster will enter the TOP 500 classification beginning of November.
VirginiaTech has also announced that Apple has produced those XserveG5 on demand especially for the BigMac cluster, and such XserveG5 dual model is not available yet.