The Big Mac supercomputer – which combines 1,100 dual-2GHz Power Mac G5s – is officially ranked the world's third fastest computer. The Top 500 ranking ranks machines on the maximum number of floating operations per second (flops) achieved during the test. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Big Mac super computer came third, with a 10.3 teraflops. Each of the clsuter's G5s is connected using Infiniband interconnect technology and Gigabit Ethernet switches.
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