OSX on G5 (IBM PPC 970) win for Virginia Tech cluster

Virginia Tech has settled on an 1100 G5 cluster for their new supercomputer. Apple/IBM's system/CPU offering beat Dell, HP, Sun and others (AMD, Intel and Sparc offerings). OSX or Darwin will be used as the host OS - ostensibly because the linux gcc port is not currently optimised for the G5, but I would imagine that Apple's diffs could be easily imported.

It will be very interesting to see the assembled system head to head against similar clusters.