IBM Supercomputer May Become World's Fastest Articles / Hardware Date: Nov 23, 2003 - 03:07 PM "IBM's PowerPC is also the chip used in Apple's G5 computers. In a similar use of the PowerPC technology, Virginia Polytechnic built a low-cost supercomputer by tying together 1,100 G5s. Pending verification, this computer was ranked in the top five supercomputers. "  The Blue Gene computers will run o­n the Linux operating system. Because of the vast amount of processors in the machines, the OS will be incorporated into o­nly a small portion of the computers' total. More o­n this from Tech Extreme. This article comes from Computer City Bangalore http://www.computercityblr.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.computercityblr.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6