What processed Apple Qmaster jobs on a cluster and was introduced in 2002?
Apple Qmaster Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Inc. that provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake, Autodesk Maya, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and any UNIX command-line program. It processes such jobs on a cluster of Mac or Xserve computers.
System G (supercomputer) System G is a cluster supercomputer at Virginia Tech consisting of 324 Apple Mac Pro computers with a total of 2592 processing cores. It was finished in November 2008 and ranked 279 in that month's edition of TOP500, running at 16.78 teraflops and peaking at 22.94 teraflops. It now runs at a “sustained (Linpack) performance of 22.8 TFlops”. It transmits data between nodes over Gigabit Ethernet and 40Gbit/s Infiniband.