{"id":1846,"date":"2003-10-15T19:59:01","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T09:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/16\/big-mac-might-get-2-spot\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:37:21","slug":"big-mac-might-get-2-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/15\/big-mac-might-get-2-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Mac might get #2 spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13115,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/technology\\\/0,1282,60821,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070322120154\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com:80\\\/news\\\/technology\\\/0,1282,60821,00.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 06:30:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:19:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:19:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The brand new &#8220;Big Mac&#8221; supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,60821,00.html\" title=\"Fast, Cheap\">second most powerful supercomputer on the planet<\/a>, according to preliminary numbers.<\/p>\n<p>  Early benchmarks of Virginia Tech&#8217;s brand new supercomputer &#8212; which is strung together from 1,100 dual-processor Power Mac G5s &#8212; may vault the machine into second place in the rankings of the worlds&#8217; fastest supercomputers, second only to Japan&#8217;s monstrously big and expensive Earth Simulator.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just thought that that was really cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brand new &#8216;Big Mac&#8217; supercomputer at Virginia Tech could be the second most powerful supercomputer on the planet, according to preliminary numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}