I've read things online about Apple employees and/or subcontractors doing work for the Navy, etc.  It would make sense for Apple to have the ability to build their own largescale machine to testing Xgrid for various "projects".
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kendrick</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:kulua@linux2themax.com">kulua@linux2themax.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jack wrote:<br><br> homegrown being made by the company, which<br>&gt;looks like it may do some hush-hush work for the DOD.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>That wouldent be suprising..&nbsp;&nbsp;the mac's have a video processing card<br>made specificaly for visualising sonardata and such.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;stumbled across
<br>that card one day and havent found it since :/<br>It wouldent suprise me if that was doing image prosessing on satalite<br>data or somthing<br></blockquote></div><br>