Another G5 xServe Supercomputer: Bowie State University

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Derek Currie

2005-02-12 03:30:46 UTC

http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=4365

http://www.bowiestate.edu/bowieweb/news/PRESS%20RELEASES/PRESS%20RELEASES
/Bowie%20State's%20Supercomputer.doc

I suppose the first question here is 'WHO?' I have never heard of the
place. And yet this represents what is now a trend: Save money and get
productivity out of buying a cluster of G5 xServe Macs.

And again, the result is a top 100 supercomputer.

And they said a Mac could never save you money. Guess someone made a
mistake.

Share and Enjoy,

:-Derek

--
"To create a new standard, it takes something thats not
just a little bit different, it takes something thats
really new and really captures peoples imagination and the
Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only
one that meets that standard." --Bill Gates

Jim Polaski

2005-02-12 05:28:11 UTC

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Post by Derek Currie
http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=4365
http://www.bowiestate.edu/bowieweb/news/PRESS%20RELEASES/PRESS%20RELEASES
/Bowie%20State's%20Supercomputer.doc
I suppose the first question here is 'WHO?' I have never heard of the
place. And yet this represents what is now a trend: Save money and get
productivity out of buying a cluster of G5 xServe Macs.
And again, the result is a top 100 supercomputer.
And they said a Mac could never save you money. Guess someone made a
mistake.
Share and Enjoy,
:-Derek

Some folks do get the "picture," don't they?

--
Regards,
JP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while
expecting that he will get nothing in return!"

Timberwoof

2005-02-12 21:40:13 UTC

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Let's see now. Soon we will be told that there's no such thing as an xServe
Supercomputer, that you have to built it out of more than one. Then we will be
told that OS X cannot do supercomputing without heavy modification, that all
these xServes are OS X Server, and that Apple does not make superconputer
clustering software. When someone points out specific pages on Apple's web site,
the web site will be dismissed as marketing folderol.

But who publishes a Word document on a web page? Yuck!

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John Slade

2005-02-13 04:18:56 UTC

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Post by Derek Currie
/Bowie%20State's%20Supercomputer.doc
I suppose the first question here is 'WHO?' I have never heard of the
place. And yet this represents what is now a trend: Save money and get
productivity out of buying a cluster of G5 xServe Macs.
And again, the result is a top 100 supercomputer.
And they said a Mac could never save you money. Guess someone made a
mistake.
Share and Enjoy,
:-Derek

OS X cannot do supercomputing without heavy modification,

OS X does not do supercomputing out of the box.

Post by Jim Polaski
that all
these xServes are OS X Server, and that Apple does not make superconputer
clustering software.

Who said that? Apple has recently entered the clustering software
market. Xgrid is an addon to OS X or OS X server. It does not come with it.
Xgrid will be included with OS X Tiger Server.

Post by Jim Polaski
When someone points out specific pages on Apple's web site,
the web site will be dismissed as marketing folderol.

It is. There are far better applications currently availible that can
do clustering. And guess what, they don't cost an arm and a leg.

John