{"id":837,"date":"2003-11-05T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2003-11-05T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T16:59:00","slug":"confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of the World&#8217;s Largest Switcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/a\/mac\/2003\/10\/29\/osxcon_g5cluster.html\">an article on O&#8217;Reilly Network.<\/a>.. by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/au\/187\">Daniel H. Steinberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<br \/>\n<i>His ad might go something like this. &#8220;I was in the market for a new machine. I was hoping to get ten teraflops by the end of the year. I&#8217;d never used a Mac and had been looking at Dells and IBMs. Then Apple released the G5 on June 23. A week later I bought 1,100 duals online at the Apple Store. I&#8217;m Srinidhi Varadarajan and I build Supercomputers at Virginia Tech.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Their latest numbers are at almost 10 TeraFlops which puts them as the third fastest in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-837\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-837\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-837\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on O&#8217;Reilly Network&#8230; by Daniel H. Steinberg: Excerpt: His ad might go something like this. &#8220;I was in the market for a new machine. I was hoping to get ten teraflops by the end of the year. I&#8217;d never used a Mac and had been looking at Dells and IBMs. Then Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-837\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-837\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-837\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/confessions-of-the-worlds-largest-switcher\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1X6ba-dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}