The Apple Developer Connection Published "RIACS and Mac OS X: a Critical Edge for NASA 3D Rendering:"

A research team at NASA needed a single computer platform that could handle a variety of tasks, including complex data rendering, provide access to UNIX tools, as well as a high-performance, integrated development environment (IDE), plus they wanted to use applications that don't run on UNIX. The solution? Mac OS X. This article describes how RIACS moved to the Macintosh for their 3D rendering work for NASA.