[geeks] New Cray?

[Dan Sikorski]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>> How many years ago did Apple claim that the powermac was a 
>> supercomputer?  I think we diluted the term a long time ago.
>
> It wasn't Apple that did it. The US government issued a list of forbidden
> technology that could not be exported, and supercomputers was one of the
> things on that list.
> The G4 fit the current defintion of supercomputer from that list.

Apple did, however, use that at a marketing ploy, which is effectively 
what this is. 

FWIW, the machine is also available with Red Hat.

    -Dan Sikorski