think cluster.
¶ by Rob FrieselMaybe I’m following this story too closely … but it does intrigue me. Especially: Varadarajan said all the code he wrote for Virginia Tech’s Linux-based clusters was moved over to the Mac OS X computers with relative ease. Which makes me raise an eyebrow because porting the terminal apps shouldn’t be that rough and w/ the X11 layer for OS X … well, there is clearly some subtlety I’m missing … but still.
There’s also: It will be used for research into nanoscale electronics, quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, aerodynamics, molecular statics, computational acoustics and the molecular modeling of proteins. Which brings us right back around…
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