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[David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 01:04  PM, David Minton wrote:

> On 1/28/04 12:41 PM, "zman" <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Jeffrey Gordon wrote:
> > > Actually, these folks are wasting a LOT of money.  I am glad I'm not 
> > > a VT
> > > student or alum being asked to foot the bill.
> >
> > Actually no they're not. Apple is taking the other machines back. The
> > decrease in power use will save money. And there will also be an 
> > increase
> > in performance. So do a little research before you spout off.
>
> If I recall, this was actually part of the original deal with VT--Apple
> would swap the G5 desktops for G5 Xserves, when they became available.

I'm not actually sure that this is a clean swap deal.  I imagine Apple 
is making it very attractive for them, however.

I am much more interested in how someone can come to believe that such 
an investment is a "waste of money."  At less than 7 million dollars, 
the resource they were able to assemble is unequaled.  To improve upon 
their model, one would have to spend 10 to 20 times that amount.

Major tertiary benefits of such a feat include bringing a smaller 
school like VT up to the forefront of current supercomputing technology 
and having surplus resources available to sell/rent/partition to as 
many customers as they would like -- which may help pay for the device 
in the long run.

So, was that simply personal opinion or is there more to such rationale?

dave m.

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