Technical details about my site (and the Mac as a web-surfing machine): here
Where can I get technical documentation about the Macintosh? Apple Developers site
What is the future of the Macintosh? Answer: the IBM-970
I am obviously going to have to change some of this [6.6.2005] !
The Big News in the Macintosh World
Apple G5 computer selected for 1100-node supercomputing cluster
because of best performance-to-cost ratio: Thinking Different, Saving Money [Wired, 25 Sep 2003]
More on the Virginia Tech supercomputer:
What's News at VT [www.cs.vt.edu, 09 Sep 2003]
Cluster scores very high on first tests:
Mac Supercomputer: Fast, Cheap [Wired, 10 Oct 2003]
The New York Times' view:
Low-Cost Supercomputer From 1,100 Mac's [New York Times, 21 Oct 2003]
Apple Computer's ten-page site on the cluster:
Cost Conscious Supercomputing
India is proud of its countryman:
Interview With the Designer [Times of India, 23 Oct 2003]
Details of the international effort:
Achieving the Impossible [Virginia Tech Magazine, Winter 2004]
Kins Collins' take on the VT supercluster:
Number 3 in world -- Why so cheap? [23 Oct 2003]
From BDS to QuickTime, Mac OS X consists of technologies with widely different histories and
based on different standards and conventions. A single Mac OS X system hosts volumes of
different formats, supports different network file-sharing protocols, and can run applications
based on radically different APIs. Mac OS X's imposition of unity over this rich technological
diversity is one of its singular accomplishments.
