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New Army Supercomputer to be powered by Xserve

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
by Lockergnome

Colsa Corporation is building a new supercomputer, Mach 5, for the U.S. Army. It will be powered by 1,566 dual-processor Apple Xserve servers and have a peak performance capability of 25 Teraflops per second. It is expected to be the second most powerful in the world. The U.S. Army plans to use it for modelling the aerodynamics of hypersonic flight and will cost around $5.8mn. They plan to finish it by the end of Autumn

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