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There is going to be a demo of high performance computing on the Apple platform on the night of April 27th in the SoHo neighborhood of NYC. Apple's will use the latest PowerPC G5 Processors made by IBM. This, along with a new 64bit UNIX operating system allows the construction of supercomputers for a fraction of the cost of comparable systems. Event Title: Xserve G5 for High Performance Computing Wednesday, April 27th, 6 - 8:00 pm Apple Store SoHo Theater Prince and Greene, New York City No RSVP needed Matt MacInnis Manager, Research Computing Worldwide Science and Technology Markets Xserve G5 and Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” provide the ultimate platform for 64-bit high performance computing. Matt MacInnis, Manager for research computing in Apple’s worldwide Professional Markets team, will show attendees the merits of the Mac platform, useful third-party applications and successful customers who are using Xserve G5 for high performance computing today. Scientists, engineers, creative professionals and others needing more computational power than their desktops can provide are invited to attend. Matt MacInnis graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. After working for a number of years in consumer marketing, Matt returned to his technical roots in 2004 and joined Apple’s Worldwide Science and Technology Markets group to grow Apple’s high performance computing business, and manages solutions like the Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics. http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/ http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/week/20050424.html