Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The "Big Mac" or Terascale Cluster is a supercomputer assembled in 2003 by U.S university Virginia Tech under the supervision of Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan. The "Big Mac" is a cluster of 1,100 dual-processor Apple G5 Power Macintosh computers. It is notable for its relatively low cost of just over 5 million dollars and high power (9.55 teraflops) as well as its short build time of about six months. The Terascale Cluster has a good price-performance ratio. It falls only behind Japan's Earth Simulator (35.8 teraflops) and the ASCI Q supercomputer (13.8 teraflops) in raw power. Srinidhi Varadarajan believes that further tuning could boost performance by another 10 percent. External Links Jack Dongarra's TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers Mac cluster rises in supercomputing ranks Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.