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Virginia Tech on Your Mac Life

Posted by pudge on from the all-you-ever-wanted-to-know dept.

YourMacLife writes "On tonight's Your Mac Life, the Dean of Virginia Tech's College of Engineers, Hassan Aref, will talk about the G5 cluster the college is building and what it means to supercomputing. Questions can be sent in advance to onair@yourmaclife.com." See the web site for more details.

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  1. Re:Did BSD make this possible? by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bravo for the effort... but, methinks they could do this more cheaply (although, not 64-bit) with stock PC hardware.

    Based on the likely purposes of this cluster, that's completely meaningless. This is what 64-bit hardware is for.

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  2. Re:Did BSD make this possible? by Danma · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where were you when this was posted? Clearly Virginia Tech's already done the pricing homework versus commodity PC hardware. Meanwhile, I'm sure Apple will give them a nice deal for buying so many machines (plus free advertising for the ol' fruit company, eh?)

  3. Re:Did BSD make this possible? by Daleks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bravo for the effort... but, methinks they could do this more cheaply (although, not 64-bit) with stock PC hardware.

    Pundits say the machine is actually cheap. For a 64-bit machine with all the I/O and bus trimmings it is priced nicely. The only thing I'm amazed at is that VT didn't wait for headless cluster-only Xserves. Rack mounting the G5 case looks like it would be a hassle and a shame.