[Open-bio-l] Re: [Biohackathon] Apple contact

[Elia Stupka]

> It will depend though on your application mix if the price/performance
> is going to be reasonable.  Some groups will benefit and others may be
> better off with linux-on-intel. We've advised some people to go with
> Apple and others to stay away.

The other option of course if one is not too scared of system integration
is to mix the two... anyway as I mentioned I'd be really interested to
hear some insider's info on how good bad it is for bionformatics...

Elia

> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> Elia Stupka wrote:
> 
> >Hello guys,
> >
> >I might soon be putting in an order for a medium-size cluster for
> >bioinformatics. Among the options I'd like to look into the new Apple
> >XServe. I was wondering if somebody could dig up contacts of Apple people
> >that wanted to donate laptops to hackathon people, to see if they would be
> >interested into this here in Singapore...
> >
> >Elia
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 

Elia

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