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Wednesday, January 7, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Controversy about PowerPoint -- Comment()
It seems that my net column on PowerPoint interested a lot of readers (written in Finnish, Kuinka PowerPoint tuhosi avaruussukkulan). I have already received quite a few comments, mainly positive. However, I must once again point out that the column was inspired by the excellent booklet The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward R. Tufte.
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Apple Previews Xgrid Technology: "Xgrid helps scientists and others working in compute intensive environments to fully utilize all IT resources, including desktops and servers, by creating a grid enabled 'virtual' IT environment that takes advantage of unused computing capacity to run batch and workload processing." (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Apple Xserve G5 and Xgrid software -- Comment()
Apple revealed yesterday a new Xserve G5 (plus Xserve RAID), which suits computational clusters. And the new Xgrid software offers nice features for cluster-builders. I think Apple is starting to take supercomputing and grids seriously. Perhaps the G5 dual cluster at Virginia Tech has inspired Apple to invest in computational science. At least Apple has set up a Advanced Computation Group (ACG) for supporting this area.
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