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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Platforms:
Apple Begins Shipping Xserve G5 To
Customers
Apple announced it has begun shipping its Xserve G5, the most powerful
Xserve
yet, to customers. With unparalleled performance and manageability, Xserve G5
delivers over 30 gigaflops of processing power per system-about 60 percent
more than the PowerPC G4-based Xserve-in a 1U rack-mount enclosure.
"Xserve G5 is a big hit with customers who want a powerful 1U rack-mount
server for thousands of dollars less than alternatives from Dell, IBM and
Sun," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product
Marketing. "With dual G5 processing power, massive storage, incredible I/O
performance and Apple's Mac OS X Server software included, Xserve G5 is
affordable, easy to manage and easy to cluster."
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"We chose a 64-node Xserve G5 cluster over an AMD-based cluster running
Linux," said Jonathan Cohen, director of the Center for the Study of Brain,
Mind and Behavior at Princeton University. "Apple is known not only for the
ease of use, support and innovative engineering of its products, but also for
the creative spirit that it is now bringing directly to bear on the needs of
high-end scientific computing. The combination of Apple's flair for innovation
and standards-based open source software make Xserve G5 an easy and exciting
choice."
Apple has also introduced the Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics, a
turnkey, high-performance computing cluster that allows any scientist to
configure, operate and maintain the system. The workgroup cluster solution
offers outstanding price-performance with unrivaled ease of setup and includes
iNquiry, a 3rd-party bioinformatics package from The BioTeam that provides 200
ready-to-use bioinformatics applications optimized for Apple's industry-
leading Xserve G5. Installation and maintenance have also been greatly
simplified so little or no IT support is required.
Apple offers a choice of world-class services and support programs for
Xserve
including 4-hour on-site response, 24x7 technical support, AppleCare Service
Parts Kits and the AppleCare Professional SupportLine and Tools program.
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