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Apple has posted a three-page profile on the 1,566-node Xserve G5 supercomputer cluster built by US Army contractor COLSA. (See MacMinute’s report from June.) “At its peak, the supercluster can exceed 25 teraflops — calculating more than 25 trillion floating-point operations per second. By comparison, the world’s fastest computer — NEC’s $350 million Earth Simulator — runs at a peak speed of 40 teraflops.

COLSA, a US Army contractor based in Huntsville, Alabama, today announced the purchase of 1,566 Xserve G5s to build a new supercomputer expected to be one of the fastest in the world. The supercomputer, named “MACH 5,” is expected to deliver a peak performance capability of more than 25 TFlops/second at a cost of US$5.8 million and will be used to model the complex aero-thermodynamics of hypersonic flight for the US Army.