Apple Launches Xserve G5 Server
Apple Computer Tuesday announced it has begun shipping its Xserve G5, the company's most powerful Xserve to date.
March 23, 2004
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Apple Computer Tuesday announced it has begun shipping its Xserve G5, the company's most powerful Xserve to date. The Xserve G5 provides more than 30 gigaflops of processing power per system, roughly 60 percent more than the PowerPC G4-based Xserve"in a 1U rack-mount enclosure.
"The single processor 2.0-GHz Xserve G5 servers are available now," said Douglas Brooks, product manager server hardware at Apple, "with the dual-processor version becoming available in April."
Apple has also introduced the Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics, a turnkey, high-performance computing cluster. "One area of traction for us has been in cluster computing," Brooks said. He added that the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior at Princeton University recently selected a 64-node Xserve G5 cluster rather than an AMD Opteron-based cluster running Linux.
Brooks said that Apple has been working toward eliminating the perception that Apple products, particularly Apple servers, are more expensive than the competition's. He asserted that an Xserve G5 running Red Hat, when compared with a similarly configured Dell PowerEdge, costs roughly $2,000 less.
The three standard Xserve G5 configurations include:
$2,999: a single 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 processor with 512 MB of PC3200 ECC RAM, a single 80GB Apple Drive Module with expandability for up to 750 GB, dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, and an unlimited client license of Mac OS X Server;
$3,999: dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 processors with 1 GB of PC3200 ECC RAM, a single 80 GB Apple Drive Module with expandability for up to 750 GB, dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, and an unlimited client license of Mac OS X Server;
$2,999/cluster node: cluster-optimized dual 2.0-GHz PowerPC G5 processors with 512 MB of PC3200 ECC RAM, a single 80GB Apple Drive Module, dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, and a 10-client license of Mac OS X Server.
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