over from NeXT. About 12 years ago a friend showed me their NeXT Cube
grabbing CPU time from systems all over the world in order to do some
genetic modelling.
-Kevin
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From: "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: Apple Puts a Name to Its Cluster Technology: Xgrid
> Apple Puts a Name to Its Cluster Technology: Xgrid
>
>
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1427160,00.asp?kc=EWNWS010704DTX1K0000599
> By <http://www.eweek.com/author_bio/0,3055,a=2280,00.asp>David Morgenstern
> January 6, 2004
>
>
> SAN FRANCISCO�One new technology somewhat underplayed during CEO Steve
> Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday was
> <http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/>Xgrid, Apple's new grid computing
> environment. A product of the company's Advanced Computation Group, XGrid
> Preview Edition Tuesday was
> <ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Tool_Chest/Xgrid1.0.dmg.bin>offered for
> download by the company.
>
> The keynote address featured a video describing the experience of the
> Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
> University in Blacksburg, Va. In September, the group configured a cluster
> supercomputer with 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s.
>
>
>
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