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."

Comments

Re:Ordinary scientists

[Daniel Dvorkin]

My company sells digital microscopy systems -- microscope, camera, Mac or PC workstation, capture and image processing software, and assorted other goodies -- which typically run between $75,000 and $250,000. Now, I don't know if our customers would like to be described as "ordinary scientists" <g> but we do sell plenty of systems. Academic customers usually pay with grant money, of course; corporate (mostly pharmaceutical) customers just write a check ... In any case, there are plenty of scientists who have access to that level of funding.

Re:computing power is unfairly distributed

[evilWurst]

You're misinformed. We *don't* build new nuclear weapons. We don't build old nuclear weapons either. We've signed treaties against testing or selling any of the stuff too. The computer simulations are to see how the existing ones hold up as they age (rather than detonate one every once in a while to make sure the rest still work).

Good idea

[djupedal]

...and one that should be greeted favorably all around.

Unlike the ip ban that is akin to shutting the barn door after... It's nice to see some policing going on, but c'mon - a bit late, and the way its' being done...sledgehammer approach - seems a bit inelegant, almost scud-like.