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Apple today announced upgrades to its Xserve 1U rack optimized server, delivering dual 64-bit 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 processors with over 35 gigaflops of processing power per system. This, says Apple, is the “industry’s fastest front side 1U server system bus, running at up to 1.15 GHz, providing up to 9.2 GBps of bandwidth per processor and up to three 400GB drives, achieving a groundbreaking 1.2TB of hot-plug storage.” Configurations start at US$2,999. Read More

The Xserve G5 “is not for IT people, it’s for users themselves to set up,” Douglas Brooks, Apple’s server hardware product manager, said today at FOSE 2004, the large technology trade show and conference for government professionals in Washington, DC. Brooks also said that the dual 2GHz Xserve is hardware-streamlined for tight coupling in an Apple Workgroup Cluster, in contrast with the more loosely coupled Linux PC clusters nicknamed Beowulf, according to GCN.

Apple today announced it has begun shipping its Xserve G5 to customers. The company says 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 Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.

Apple recently confirmed that the ship date for its new Xserve G5, which was introduced in January at Macworld Expo San Francisco, has been delayed. “We’ve received an incredible amount of customer interest for the new Xserve G5 1U rack-mount server since it was announced at Macworld Expo in January 2004,” Apple said in a statement. “We’re working hard to start shipping the new Xserve systems in March 2004, not by the end of February as originally announced.” Apple declined to offer specific details about the delay.

“Two words come immediately to mind to describe Apple’s Xserve G5: power and choice,” writes Computerworld’s Ryan Faas. “Focusing solely on the hardware, the new Xserve just wows me. It has one or two 2-GHz G5 processors, uses 400-MHz ECC RAM and has a dedicated front-side bus running at 1 GHz (the dual-processor model has two independent front-side buses, one for each processor).

“What’s stunning isn’t that Apple’s engineers can, say, design a server with two 2GHz G5 processors, 1GB of memory, storage capacity of 80 to 750GB and loads of other goodies all in a slim 1U package,” writes Computerworld’s Mark Hall. “No, what’s stunning is that Apple’s marketers will price the Xserve system at $3,999. That makes the long-reputed price-gouging Macintosh maker the price leader for dual-CPU servers by a couple of bucks.

Apple today introduced the Xserve G5, a new version of its powerful 1U rack-mount server with a PowerPC G5 64-bit processor. Apple said the new Xserve G5 delivers over 30 gigaflops of processing power per system, about 60 percent more than the PowerPC G4-based Xserve.