Apple will provide Xserve G5 servers for a cluster supercomputer dubbed "MACH 5" that is expected to be second in performance only to the Earth Simulator in Japan. COLSA is building the supercomputer for use by the U.S. Army in modeling hypersonic flight.

"According to the November 2003 Top 500 supercomputer list, it would rank second only to Japan's $350 million Earth Simulator computer at less than 2 percent of the cost"

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