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'Ringing' endorsement for G5 Power Mac

updated 09:40 am EDT, Wed September 10, 2003

 
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Virgina Tech's may help substantiate the speed and cost-effectiveness of the new Power Mac G5: "While it wasn't Apple's idea, the company stands to benefit big-time. The opportunity isn't in supercomputing itself, a small market in which Apple has no standing. But Virginia Tech's progress in building a Mac-based supercomputer represents a high-profile endorsement of Apple's new G5 desktop, released just weeks ago, and the the first desktop to use a 64-bit microprocessor. Says Charles Wolf, who follows Apple (AAPL ) for investment boutique Needham & Co.: 'Virginia Tech is in effect blessing the G5 and its cost-effectiveness.'"


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    Going someplace ?

    what would be cooler if this super computer actually did somthing like figure out why I was stuck in the holland tunnel for 2 Hrs ? or cure for cancer .. somthing .. instead of sit there and be fast :)



    What is it going to do ????

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    short-sighted engineers

    The AppleSeed project, which demonstrates how easy it is to cluster macs together, has been around for years. Supposedly it is very easy to convert application code to take advantage of this technology - probably not even as difficult as adding multi processor support. ("Clustering" simply means that several computers, communicating by TCP/IP, for example, act like multiple processors in one big machine - sharing processing tasks - to gain performance speed).
    Unfortunately, software engineers have been idiotic (or misdirected) by not adding this funcionality to their software. An After Effects render cluster would be spectacularly cool. I've heard reports that Shake might do something like this, but I have yet to find out (clustering should not be confused with distributed rendering). The only software that seems to support this technology renders fractal designs. Totally useless.

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    Who cares

    I could tell you what it's going to do. But it's too complicated so I won't.

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    It uses to processors...

    it uses two processors to reach speeds of 2 gigahertz? WTF??? Charles usually does his homework, but he missed the mark by about 100% on this one.

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    Deep Thought

    well it's 42, innit?

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    G5's

    i heard these machines are going to be working for the kraft company, in the cheese and crackers division, grating chesse all day long.

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    Super Computer

    All your super computers are belong to us.

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    The Answer!

    Yes, the answer to all the questions is infact.... 42.

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    HPC

    High Performance Computing systems such as this one are used for things like modeling weather patterns and simulating the behavior of materials at an atomic level. They are used for scientific research primarily.

    and it is NOT "easy" to rework applications for parallel computing. It is quite challenging. In fact, not all problems can be parallelized.

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