ago? 18 years ago? Anyway, they were new then, and I'd picked up a
book at the library talking about them... some amazing stuff - 21 inch
monitor - a printer capable of printing 300 dpi. An optical drive
capable of holding an entire gigabyte. Absolutely mind-boggling.
Anyway, a friend's father told me they had a couple at their campus and
I got to use one. For a kid of maybe 9 or 10 who had only used Atari
800s and DOS computers, the NeXT was so way beyond anything I'd ever
imagined, it was astonishing.
- Jim
Kevin Graeme wrote:
>It's funny that this is basically a new name for something that they brought
>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
>
>----- Original Message -----
>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
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>>Apple Puts a Name to Its Cluster Technology: Xgrid
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>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1427160,00.asp?kc=EWNWS010704DTX1K0000599
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>>By <http://www.eweek.com/author_bio/0,3055,a=2280,00.asp>David Morgenstern
>>January 6, 2004
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>>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.
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>>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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