iPod serves distributed computing at Bio-IT conference

[bousozoku]

Apple is currently showing its wares at the Bio-IT conference, which focuses on using computers to aid in biological research.

MacCentral has posted an article where Texas A&M have been using XServes and and iPod to make setup easier.

Here's the link: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/03/27/xserveipod/

 

[chewbaccapits]

Glad to read that the little iPod is used for something other than back-up of songs, but thats not to say THAT isn't important too..

 

[medea]

yes that is very interesting, actually Apple was showing off the Cluster Xserves there as well. Apple has a good hold (I think?) on the designer market, now it's trying build one in science and research.

 

[bousozoku]

Well, Chewbaccapits, they were only using 2 GB. They didn't say what was on the rest of the iPod storage. I'd imagine heavy metal. (I hope that's not too esoteric.)

Apple has had quite a presence in science already at NASA and related industry. You may recall that PowerComputing, not long after being assembled, sold several thousand of their Macintosh clones to a defence contractor.

The fact that Apple is now making UNIX easier to use, helps scientists spend more time doing science and not fixing or adminstering computers.

 

[uhlawboi80]

always nice to here about my undergrad institution in any article but this isnt really all that suprising at A&M. the VIZ lab uses macs for everything it does (supplies most of Pixars staff too) and the main campus computer lab had 40+ FP iMacs and lots of the other departments had labs with Macs in them. A&M really runs at least 30% mac.