Aussie Forces play war-games with Tiger
This from the Melbourne newspaper The Age 3rd May, 2005.
The Australian Department of Defence will be one of the first users of Apple's new operating system OS X 10.4, or Tiger, buying an Apple server cluster for use in the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
The contract, signed last month and valued at almost $90,000, specifies the supply of an Apple Xserve cluster node running OS X 10.4, which was officially launched last Friday.
Dr Michael Webb, head of DSTO's distributed enterprises group, says the cluster is an upgrade to a system bought 18 months ago for chess simulation, the game of chess being used as a metaphor for war-gaming.
The upgrade doubles the size of the cluster to 64 processors, half with G4 and half G5 processors. The chief benefit is the power of the Apple machines: "grunty", Dr Webb says.
He says the Unix base of OS X is attractive to scientists and researchers and the G5 performance is outstanding.
I like the "grunty" despription. Typical Aussie male comment
The Australian Department of Defence will be one of the first users of Apple's new operating system OS X 10.4, or Tiger, buying an Apple server cluster for use in the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
The contract, signed last month and valued at almost $90,000, specifies the supply of an Apple Xserve cluster node running OS X 10.4, which was officially launched last Friday.
Dr Michael Webb, head of DSTO's distributed enterprises group, says the cluster is an upgrade to a system bought 18 months ago for chess simulation, the game of chess being used as a metaphor for war-gaming.
The upgrade doubles the size of the cluster to 64 processors, half with G4 and half G5 processors. The chief benefit is the power of the Apple machines: "grunty", Dr Webb says.
He says the Unix base of OS X is attractive to scientists and researchers and the G5 performance is outstanding.
I like the "grunty" despription. Typical Aussie male comment