URL: http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/index.php

Contact: Calvin Ribbens

System X is a supercomputer assembled by Virginia Tech faculty members, staff, and students in the summer of 2003, comprising 1,100 Apple PowerMac G5 computers. System X is currently running at 12.25 Teraflops, (20.24 peak), and was last ranked #47 (November, 2006) in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At that time, it was still the most powerful system categorized by TOP500 as "self made" at any university. It is now part of Virginia Tech's suite of high performance computers being used for research.