Apple G5 for Fortran jobs?

From: G. Hugh Song (ghsong_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/08/03

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    In the advertisement that one can find in Time magazine and many others,
    There is an impressive SPECFP2000rate result on a single CPU on a dual
    machine. (Why not two CPUS's together?)

    However, it seems that the result was never submitted to SPEC.org.
    I cannot find any row in SPEC.org's list. Also, the veritest link which
    www.apple.com/powermac provides is a not a kind direct link, either.

    Admittedly, my impression on Mac has been very negative. It has been
    like: their ad says one thing, the reality says another. What is the
    current situation?

    Seriously, has it become making sense to run FORTRAN jobs on Apple G5
    by now?
    Is it possible to run Linux on it to run FORTRAN jobs? I would not care
    about Linux if their current OS-X is truly Unix-like.

    Thanks.

    Hugh

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