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Apple plans Xeon-based Xserve cluster node
By Stephen Shankland
Thursday, August 17 2006 11:46 AM URL: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,39391454,00.htm SAN FRANCISCO--Apple Computer introduced its first Xeon-based Xserve server in August, but another element of its Intel transformation will begin in the next two months. The company's Xserve G5 Cluster Node is due to be replaced by a Xeon system in October, said Christina Murray, an Apple representative showing off the company's Xserve products Wednesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. That's the same time that the regular Xeon-based Xserve is due, Apple said last week. The 1.75-inch-thick cluster system is designed to be used in high-performance computing applications that are farmed out across a group of computers. They therefore lack features such as video ports and DVD drives that business server customers prefer and that are in regular Xserve models. Apple is in the process of moving from PowerPC processors built by IBM and FreeScale Semiconductor to Core and Xeon processors from Intel. The company already has released several desktop computers, and now the server line is following suit. The new Apple servers use Intel's "Woodcrest" Xeon chip introduced in June. |