Apple Wins VT in Cost. vs. Performance

danigiri writes "Detailed notes about a presentation at Virginia Tech are posted by by an attending student. copied most of the slides of the facts presentation and wrote down their comments. He wrote some insightful notes and info snippets, like the fact that Apple gave the cheapest deal of machines with chassis, beating Dell, IBM, HP. They are definitely going to use some in-house fault-tolerance software to prevent the odd memory-bit error on such a bunch of non-error-tolerant RAM and any other hard or soft glitches. The G5 cluster will be accepting first apps around-November." mfago adds, "Apple beat Dell, IBM and others based on Cost vs. Performance alone, and it will run Mac OS X because 'there is not enough support for Linux.'"

astroturf!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

no mention of the free memory upgrades....

Re:Power concerns

[pmz]

I'm suprized not to find Power consumption/heat dissapation in the presentation.

Power consumption would have only made Apple look better.

Dude...

[yoshi1013]

At this point all I really want to know is what the hell does 1100 G5s look like???

Certain things are easy to imagine in large quantities, but dude.

Just....dude....

Free printer and Ipod case

[goombah99]

Man they really blew it. They should have ordered it from macmall. it would have come with 1000 free printers and 1000 ipod cases.

G5's cheaper than VTs?

[dpbsmith]

I believe you can get a VT [utk.edu] for well under $1000, and I've even heard that some of them now support advanced "sixel" graphics.

And they scroll MUCH more smoothly than OS X.

Re:Dude...

[Greedo]

Wait a minute ... a serious /. comment where the poster actually wonders what a Beowulf cluster of these looks like! Call the papers!

Re:An interesting tidbit

[eweu]

I caught that too. Use of Macs in 2006 no doubt depends on 2 factors: 1) how well the 2003 cluster works out, and 2) how the Mac compares to competitors in 2006. Could be a nice win for Apple, again, if they manage to keep both 1 and 2 competitive. Which remains to be seen, and I'm holding my breath.

I don't know. Holding your breath until 2006 sounds... dangerous.