Editing System X (supercomputer) (section)

== Background ==
The supercomputer's name originates from the use of the [[Mac OS X]] [[operating system]] for each node, and because it was the first university computer to achieve 10 [[Flops|teraflops]] on the high performance [[LINPACK|LINPACK benchmark]]. In 2003 it was also touted as "the world's most powerful and cheapest homebuilt supercomputer."<ref name="System X History"/> System X was constructed with a relatively low budget of just $5.2 million, in the span of only three months, thanks in large part to using off-the-shelf Power Mac G5 computers.  By comparison, the [[Earth Simulator]], the fastest supercomputer at the time, cost approximately $400 million to build.