The Globe and Mail: PCs By Day, Supercomputers By Night
Jun 19, 2006, 18:00 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Stephen Butters, George Butters)
"The students who use the computer lab at St. Francis Xavier
University in Antigonish, N.S., probably aren't aware that at night
the lab transforms into the equivalent of a supercomputer.
"All day long, St. Francis Xavier University students sit at the
lab's rows of PCs to surf the Internet, write papers, arrange dates
or listen to podcasts. During the day, the machines run Microsoft's
Windows operating system. But at night that all changes. At 11 p.m,
the students are gone, the doors are locked and the lights are out.
It's time to close Windows until morning..."
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