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Virginia Tech today announced that its rebuilt “System X” supercomputer cluster, which consists of 1,100 Xserve G5s, is now operating at 12.25 teraflops–an increase of almost two teraflops over the original system’s 10.28 teraflops. “Virginia Tech will learn of its new ranking when the list is unveiled in November of this year at SuperComputing 2004 in Pittsburgh,” said Srinidhi Varadarajan, the lead designer of the system.

CNET News.com reports that the Xserve upgrade to Virginia Tech’s supercomputer cluster is now complete, but that it was built with machines unavailable to the public. According to Virginia Tech spokeswoman Lynn Nystrom, the university’s system is made up of 1,100 Xserves with dual 2.3GHz G5 chips, even though Apple currently only sells Xserve G5s with dual 2GHz chips.