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Top 11 little known uses for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1,100-node Apple G5 Super Computer.: Page 7 of 20

• 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