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Re: Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer

Posted by nturrill on 2003-09-07 04:21:44

In reply to Jay Lyman

Could this project have anything to do with Apple's month delay in delivering its new G5 computer systems to those who ordered them just after Steve Jobs announced them?
Since this article said, "Aref, who indicated the project is under pressure to submit computing speed numbers by October to be considered among the world's fastest supercomputers...", and since the supercomputing cluster is supposed to use 1100 G5 dual processor computers, that means 2200 of the new G5 2 GHz computer chips, then I suppose that this is a significant impact on the production and delivery the G5 computers for anyone else.
Apple, in an email to me, stated that its reason for the month delay was, "Initial units will be sent to education institutions to meet key back to school deadlines."
Could Apple be distorting its reason(s) for this delay? In more direct terms, could Apple be lying to it customers?


*	Topic	Author	Date
	Re: Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer	Jay Lyman	2003-09-03 10:31:00
	Re: Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer	nturrill	2003-09-07 04:21:44
	Re: Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer	boltonrr	2003-09-10 07:48:05