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Virginia Tech on Your Mac Life 40

YourMacLife writes "On tonight's Your Mac Life, the Dean of Virginia Tech's College of Engineers, Hassan Aref, will talk about the G5 cluster the college is building and what it means to supercomputing. Questions can be sent in advance to onair@yourmaclife.com." See the web site for more details.
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Virginia Tech on Your Mac Life

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  • by Anonymous Coward
    Well, can I?
  • by n8_f ( 85799 )
    Well, I browsed through the links at threshold=1 and I couldn't find any comments from anyone who had actually listened to the broadcast in question. No surprise there, I guess.

    It wasn't that great, so you didn't miss much. It starts at 1:17 and ends at about 1:37 in the archive file for those who would like to listen. For everyone else, here is a list of the highlights:

    They didn't go with an Xserve chassis because they couldn't get one with a G5.

    They are using the stock chassis, no modifications.

  • I just heard through one of the people involved that 900 machines have arrived now. Out of those, only 2 were DOA. That's less than 0.25%. Impressive. And only 200 more to go.
  • having to wait another month to get my hands on my preordered dualie! I was so upset, I bought an iMac for my wife, and now I feel much better.

    I don't know what kind of subliminal messages Steve puts in his keynotes, but my wallet opens itself around apple logos these days. Scary.

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