Do you think that maybe another academic institution may be getting their current G5's ???? or they will be upgrading their network to a full mac suite or maybe going to the staff / students at discounts.
Maybe this system was a test bed, dont forgett they got the first shipment of G5's and a completely new architecture, this thing wont have had much real world experience and apple may have offered them a 'Proper' system if they wanted it, to run their projects on e.g. the Xserve systems.
Doesn't look good for apple marketing if a supercomputer is made up of their Desktop Machines and not their servers, what does that say of apple's servers, this has always been a weak point for apple, their servers have never been really upto scratch until the xserves came along.
Its like a company saying to HP/Compaq,, hmm no we wont use your Proliant ML Servers we'll use your EVO Desktops... doesn't happen.
All i can say is this is looking to be a promising future for Apple Servers, I hope they exploit this, who knows a 3u Mac Server next?? Just look at the flexibility this one has offered, and of course its all thanks to the w
