Not exactly. Neither of the two faster machines are x86 based systems (i.e. they don't have an Intel or AMD chipset)... #1 cost $350 million, and #2 cost more than $40 million, and this new Mac cluster (Big Mac), cost less than $5.5 million and might prove to be faster than the #2 machine. (The #4 machine is a $35 million dollar cluster of Xeon processors that can't even hold a match to the Mac supercomputer).
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