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VT Testimonial

Virginia Tech has definitely got it going on when it comes to research.

Not only do they sport a tricked-out G5 cluster, the third fastest supercomputer in the world (and a measly 5.1 mill’ at that), but I’ve been using one of their open source programs, VT Survey, to conduct research for my wife as she writes her Master’s thesis. After reviewing several similar products, VT Survey turned out to be the only one that did everything we needed— plus it had the advantage of being free.

It requires Tomcat and JDK 1.4, which can run on just about anything, including Mac OS X. Impressive still is the fact that it stores survey data in convenient "no-db-required" XML files. Very nice.


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Jonathan
17 January 2004 @ 12am

Yes, VT definitely has it going on. I just read today that they are going to be replacing the 1100 G5′s with G5 Xserves! Apparantly Apple is doing an even trade.