Top 11 little known uses for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1,100-node Apple G5 Super Computer.

• Count the number of bullets fired in the "Matrix" film trilogy. - Bill Brownrigg

• Given all available information, determine once and for all who actually won the 2000 presidential election. Speaking of which, we could also use it to develop a secure, reliable, auditable system for electronic voting machines using off-the-shelf parts in time for the next election. Oh, sorry. That only requires one G5. - Nathan Hampton

• Predict when the last Windows Vulnerability will be found. - Bill Baltas

• A boat anchor! - James D hudspeth

• Drop it on real apples to make applesauce. - David Perdue• Rule on SETI@home

• Keep track of the number of lawsuits against Microsoft - Grant Fleming

• Run the mother of all LAN Parties. - Grant Fleming

• Browse for pr0n. - Grant Fleming

name : email : [email protected]• Calculate the terror level the VA Tech Hokies put into the Miami Hurricanes - Dan Kwitchen

• 11. Run Appleworks presentation software - Mike Fulscher

• Act as "son of W.O.P.R." in Wargames II - Mike Fulscher

• Host a MMORPG where every character uses a sledghammer to fight the troops of "Big Brother" -Mike Fulscher

• Track the patch level of every Windows PC on Earth - Mike Fulscher• Run the new Virginia Poly file-swapping service - Mike Fulscher

• Calculate the interest for LeBron James' income - Mike Fulscher

• Pinpoint where Osama and Saddam are located - Mike Fulscher

• Participate in the S.E.T.I @ Home project - Mike Fulscher

• Count the times "Apple" is used on Internet Search Engines - Mike Fulscher• Figure the hypothetical value of Apple had Windows not existed - Mike Fulscher

• Store internet jokes - Mike Fulscher

• W.O.P.R. The simulation computer from War Games. - Scott Strausbaugh

• Power behind the latest LeapFrog LeapPad. - Norma Luton

• Used to Design the worlds largest Lego structure. - Norma Luton• Use as a sea anchor for the USS Roosevelt, the USNavy's latest aircraft carrier. Should keep the ship steady even in the worst of hurricanes. - Joe Bosch

• Simulate performance of the next-generation Mac-based supercomputer. - Mike Harris

• Play Solitaire - Doug Olson

• To calculate, to the nth decimal place, APPLE PIE!!! - Karl Hermansen

• ...a terminal for my Commodore 64... - Dan Kwitchen• To effectively model and create patches for all the holes in Microsofts current and future offerings of windows. - Anthony P Kraskouskas

• Predict when if ever, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing can really be trusted. - Darwin Rivera

• Manage traffic signals in [large metro area with notoriously bad traffic] to reduce time of 5-mile commute from two hours to 1 hour. - Nick Nielsen

• Translate the US Tax Code into lanuage we can understand. - Dave Martelle

• Use it to calculate the exact number of patches or updates it takes to make 1 secure and stable windows operating system. - Nate Hastings• Calculate a large number of digits representing the area of a circle divided by the square of its radius and copyright it as "Apple pi". - Philip Baczewski

• Only computer fast enough and with sufficient memory to run Windows Longhorn code. - Henry Rohlfs

• Finally a machine that could run Outlook and Word at the same time. - Dave Breiland

• Keep track of all the viruses that exploit microsoft windows based systems. - jeff meadows

• The perfect height for a stool to sit and chill listening to tunes on an IPOD. - donna michaels• Recount the votes for California's govenor election. - donna michaels

• Calibrate Bill Gate's net assests. - donna michaels

• Log the number of articles per second on JLo and Ben Affleck. - donna michaels

• First system that can run Doom 3 - Gregory Pleau

• Synchronize your LISA and your Newton at blistering speeds! - Dan Kinch• Use its hypnotic screensaver to overcome those litigious bastards from Apple Records; - Dan Kinch

• Use its superlative graphics capabilities to sort Steve Jobs' black turtleneck collection by opacity and weave; - Dan Kinch

• Hand one to Steve Ballmer so he knows the benchmark - Dan Kinch

• put one side-by-side with a Dell to prove that slave-labor computers are better than prison-labor computers! - Dan Kinch

• Pong tournaments in 64 million colors! - Dan Kinch• bitchin' DVD player for Bill Gates' Hummer - Dan Kinch

• calculate how fat Steve Jobs wallet is becoming by the minute since the itunes music store opened. - john courtright

• Model social and geo-political attributes of the Biblical End of the World, or the appearance of a stable Windows computing platform, whichever comes first. - Mitch Gorsha

• Calculate actual circumference of average Apple user's head when he gets wind of this development. - Duke Walls

• calculate the number of worthless uses of its own power - Ben Jones• Compute the Bowl Selection Criteria to see if the Hokies will get to play in a Bowl Game. - Bill Ward

• Massive Peer-to-Peer File Swapping Server for Campus. - Bill Ward

• Compute chance that the SysAdmins will get "Lucky" with the hot new freshman (to the 10th decimal place). - Bill Ward

• Help search all disertations for matches against previously published works. - Bill Ward

• Do a probability analysis to find out what, exactly, a "Hokie" is. - Bill Ward• Determine why Silicon Valley is in California and not in Blacksburg, Virginia. - Bill Ward

• Determine exactly how much more powerful a computer Virginia Tech could have purchased with the $5million if they had waited 3 months. - Bill Ward

• Ultimate IPOD storage unit. - Bill Ward

• "No, No, man, I said we need the Daddy Mac of all computers, dig? I ought to busta cap in yo for this ." - Apologizies to all Gangsta SysAdmins. - Bill Ward

• Calculate Gate's net worth to the nearest million. - Wayne Maurer• Keeping track of all microsoft's security patches. - Wayne Maurer

• Predict the next survivor cast off while simultaneously determining which bachelorette will "win" Joe Millionaire. - Wayne Maurer

• Take on Deep Blue in a one on one death match. - Wayne Maurer

• Using it as the hot water heater for the campus. - Wayne Maurer

• Calculate the exact number of usefull features in Panther, minus the actual users who really need them, plus the ones willing to pay the upgrade price, times the years these features have been in Windows. - Marvin Duran• World conquest (after it becomes sentient and learns to self-replicate). - George Romas

• FINALLY!!! Photoshop runs FAST! - Bill White

• Steve Jobs wears black turtleneck shirts seems almost infintinte. - john christian

• WIndows 2003 server will need a reboot numerous times before it completely installs; then about ten minutes thereafter. - john christian

name : email : [email protected]• Compiling Windows Longhorn Edition. - J.W. Breeden

• Hosting sites under the msn.com domain. - J.W. Breeden

• Test Site: Windows Data Center Edition - J.W. Breeden

• Calculate when Gates will unveil Windows running on a Mac? - J.W. Breeden

• Compute the exact gas mileage of a learjet. - J.W. Breeden• Reconciling Bill Gates' bank account(s). - J.W. Breeden

• Three words: Predictive Dialing Machine - J.W. Breeden

• Locating the precise position of Osama Bin Laden. (or did windows do that??) - J.W. Breeden

• Central Heating Plant: Intel (or Motorola) headquarters. - J.W. Breeden

• That's not Beowulf and Linux? - J.W. Breeden• Designing the next-generation Pentium processor. - J.W. Breeden

• Where's Waldo? - J.W. Breeden

• Render new blockbuster "Finding Nemo 2: Where The Heck Did He Get To Now?" in 12.423395 minutes. - Bob Hayes

• Calculate the business plan needed to make Apple the dominant desktop platform. - Joe Kabbes

• Calculate the probability that only the Bubba-Gump "shrimp-in" boat would survive a hurricane. NOTE: The solution of this problem relies heavily on the RDFG (Reality Distortion Field Generator) inherent in all Macintoshes. A feature Steve Jobs insisted would be "Insanely Great!" - Owen Stevens• Calculate the odds of an honest person obtaining a political office. - Michael Penn

• So ... how many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? - Michael Henry Andrews

• Calculate how many death threats Network Computing will receive from fanatical Macintosh users for coming out with this particular Last Mile. - Thomas Brimacombe

• The biggest Spaceward Ho!(TM) universe ever! - Mark Jass

• Windows patch management -Rod Dirk• Really, really, really fast pr0n - zyxwvutsr

• Run Windows Longhorn at more than a crawl. - Dave Baldwn

• Keep track of Windows vulnerabilities. - Bob Lupinskie

• Model the user interface of the Operating System expected to run on a single 2.4GHz Intel processor. -- Steven T. Sparks

• Monitor Microsoft's Linux based Firewall/Intrusion detection systems to improve system security. -- Steven T. Sparks