Apple is Making a Major Play for Scientific Computing

Learn about Apple’s scientific computing technologies, including high performance computing solutions at WWDC 2004. For example:

• Investigate the 64-bit power and high-bandwidth architecture of the Power Mac G5 and learn how to achieve maximum performance out of your scientific applications.
  
• Learn best practices for building cost-effective high-performance computational clusters using Apple hardware and software
  
• Find out how to build, test, optimize, and deploy fully platform-independent Java applications.
  
• Learn to create database-driven applications for Mac OS X Server accessing Oracle 10g, Sybase ASE, MySQL, and others.
  
• Investigate the groundbreaking user interface Xcode provides to streamline time-consuming development tasks.
  
• Learn how to get the most out of Apple open source projects such as Darwin, Rendezvous, WebCore, X11, and more.
  
• Find out about the latest tools and APIs designed to make it easy to port Unix and Linux applications to Mac OS X.
  
• Discover techniques and features that allow you to take full advantage of the OpenGL architecture in Mac OS X.
  
• Explore Java drawing capabilities including the Java3D API for rendering 3D universes and the Java Advanced Imaging API for sophisticated image manipulation.

Check out this Apple web page for more details.