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Apple users: smug, stupid, or lightyears beyond any PC owner?
I know I've posted it before and thanks to whoever showed it to me in the first place.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson
Mostly they are shuffled around over a variety of linux boxes, some macs, and other assorted odd hardware. I like how you can, usually, just shift "entire machines" around to configure up a new virtual cluster. Wish VMWare on the Macs wasn't such a pain with back-ups though.
One client uses a cluster essentially based around Xen and Condor, which is really nice when everything works, but that isn't often, as that really is handcrafted stuff, various incarnations of SGI boxes, (the R-0000 series processors), Sun boxes (some even with 68000), if you've heard of it, they've probably got one, or access one of my antiques, or rent time on some other companies kit.
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