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Apple to Award Workgroup Clusters to Scientists
Graff writes "Apple is giving away five Apple Workgroup Clusters for Bioinformatics (each worth approximately $40,000) to four higher
education researchers and one non-education researcher. A panel of independent scientists and Apple will choose the lucky researchers."
For the mad scientist who has everything!
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
must be a 1.8 ghz G5 with monitor to add up to that size of cash.
Imagine a beowulf.....
What? No 23" Apple Studio Display? I'm disappointed.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Please, no beowulf cluster jokes.
Nope, it's a big brown truck.
Are you suggesting that for some reason Giant Pandas are not worthy of this prize?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of researches that well equiped...
I've come to the conclusion that Apple must have some sort of market share that defies the natural laws of the universe. For years now, Apple's market share has always been reported at ~4% with numbers as low as 2% in some places and as high as 10% in others. But the one thing that has remained constant throughout these reports is that it's adwindling market share and it's falling rapidly. Now, how is it that 6 years ago, they could have 4%, 5 years ago they had 4%, 4 years ago they had 4%, 3 years ago they have 4%, 2 years ago they have 4%, one year ago they have 4% and this year, they still have 4%, yet every year it was declining?
This leads to the conclusion that Apple must have invented purpetual self sustaining marketshare, a graph of which could make MC Escher proud, and that they must patent this immediately so that they can increase their marketshare to -pi
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
Harpo Tunnel Syndrome--my wrist feels funny.
"...skin. Yeah that's right. I study female skin exposure and do extensive analysis using digital photographs and videos. I need a powerful computing solution to work with some of my experimental data."
I would like to formally propose an educational study in which the effect that faster Photoshop and Quark X-Press productivity would have on my pocket book would be studied. I'd also like to crunch some numbers on the effect of staggering frame rates in UT2K4 would have on my on-line gaming experience, as I currently suck. My studio would be the happy receipient of one of your donor G5 machines. Thank you for your time.
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
Seriously, unless these are Photoshop scientists, what good will they be?
Sorry, Apple, but I can't accept your offer. You see, my IT department won't support Mac servers.
Best Buy can have you arrested
Before you start giving away Xserve clusters, could you please ship the Xserves that we ordered over a month ago?
Astrophysics is dominated by Suns...
Somehow, this doesn't seem surprising...
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
Every time somebody mentions nuclear weapons, I get reminded of this funny animation about the end of the world. Too fun...