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

[Lincoln Stein]

As far as I know, nothing happened regarding the "free" apple stuff.
It was Tim O'Reilly's suggestion that apple give laptops to the
biohackathon attendees, but apple didn't bite.

Lincoln

chris dagdigian writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Hey Elia-
 > 
 > We (bioteam.net) are working on the Xserve cluster that will be housed 
 > in Apple's executive briefing center in California and I think there is 
 > a really good chance that we'll get hired to work on a couple of largish 
 > sized xserve "bioclusters" in the next few months. Our Apple guru (Bill 
 > Van Etten) is travelling right now but I'm sure that once I can reach 
 > him :) he can give you the contact info you need to reach the right 
 > people at Apple directly.
 > 
 > Regarding the free apple stuff- my recollection was that Apple was 
 > seeking "suggestions" from various people in the community as to how 
 > they could best seed some of their hardware to key people in the field. 
 > I'm not actually sure that anything happened to this because I remember 
 > peeking at some of the names submitted and I don't think any of them got 
 > seeded.
 > 
 > If I can't reach Bill today I'll dig through my Apple business cards and 
 > ask someone who is the contact for Xserve in Singapore.
 > 
 > The Xserve units are worth evaluating if you are thinking of a cluster. 
 > 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.
 > 
 > -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
 > >
 > >  
 > >
 > 
 > 
 > 
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