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To: solitas
Do any of these installations DO anything actually beneficial?

Well the 1556 Macs in COLSA's cluster are supposed to be hard at work simulating air flow over wing surfaces. Others are mapping genomes. Lawrence Livermore Lab's is working on nuclear weapon test simulations and designs.

The Japanese's Earth Simulator is working on Global Warming models (So you might be right)...

5 posted on 06/25/2005 5:44:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: Swordmaker; solitas

<< The Japanese's Earth Simulator is working on Global Warming models .... >>

And have you seen the projections?????!!!!!!!!!

Why it's gotten markedly hotter every week since the end of winter and at the rate of projected temperature increases, before the end of September we'll be frying eggs by the heat of McMurdo Sound's midnight sun !

[Maybe they'd better get a Mac?]


6 posted on 06/25/2005 7:37:47 PM PDT by Brian Allen (All that is required to ensure the triumph [of evil] is that Good Men do nothing -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Swordmaker
The Japanese's Earth Simulator is working on Global Warming models (So you might be right)...

(chuckle)

7 posted on 06/26/2005 5:04:02 AM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.1)
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