Author: margolies,marc
Date: 20:55:18 10/22/03
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i am sure there are alot of desks at Virginia Tech. These machines can be swapped out when cheaper ones arrive--or faster ones. Mean while they got their publicity during recruitment season. On October 22, 2003 at 22:07:34, Steven Edwards wrote: >Also, http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/22/1727208.shtml > >(No registration required.) > >For mostly non technical reasons, VT was in a big rush to get this farm in place >prior to October first. If they had been able to wait a month or so, they >likely would have gotten a much better and certainly more appropriate solution >by waiting for Apple to deliver Xserve cluster nodes (rackmount) with dual G5 >CPUs. Now they have paid for 1,100 desktop machines, each with plenty of costly >features that have absolutely no use in a cluster environment.
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