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Apple to Award Workgroup Clusters to Scientists

Posted by pudge on from the get-your-applications-in-now dept.

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."

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  1. Re:More trouble than it's worth? by Dog135 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    year 0: 10 Macs, 10 PCs
    year 1: 0 new Macs, 10 PCs replaced
    year 2: 0 new Macs, 10 PCs replaced
    year 3: 10 Macs replaced, 10 PCs replaced
    year 4: 0 new Macs, 10 PCs replaced
    year 5: 0 new Macs, 10 PCs replaced

    total sold: 20 Macs, 60 PCs
    install base: 10 Macs, 10 PCs

    I have seen research that shows Macs have something like twice the life of a PC.

    I've owned both Macs and PCs for years, and my Macs are capable of running more new software then the PCs.

    --
    "That's so plausible, I can't believe it!" - Leela
  2. Apple by arfuni · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a lot of statements in this thread about about Macs not being useful for science due to software support. What the hell? That's like saying that HP, Dell, etc can't be used - Mac systems can take UNIX versions just like any other computer. Regardless, our university's physics department apparently uses nothing but Apple systems, although generally old ones due to the budget.