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Virginia Tech on Your Mac Life

Posted by pudge on Wednesday September 10, 2003 @10:08AM 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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Did BSD make this possible? by Not_Wiggins · 2003-09-10 10:46 · Score: 0, Troll

I checked the article, and all they said was they planned on doing it "more cheaply than buying a supercomputer from a manufacturer."

Does this mean they're planning on running some variant of BSD? I would imaging that, for licensing sake, they wouldn't put a stock Mac OS on there (OSX)... would cost "too much" and would provide "more" than they need.

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

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$5m??! by mantera · 2003-09-10 23:37 · Score: 0, Troll

isn't 5m a lot of money for a top ten supercomputer? I thought you could get cluster computing on the cheap. Would they have had it cheaper had they used linux and intel?