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With
the compute performance of two superscalar 2.3GHz PowerPC G5
processors, the Xserve G5 cluster node configuration is ideal for High
Performance Computing (HPC) in scientific and technical environments,
as well as for workgroup clusters and render farms. Your Xserve G5
cluster delivers the high-density compute power you need — without the
server features you won’t use — for a price that’s easy to multiply
across your cluster.
Space Saver
Apple can offer you such a great price performance value by eliminating
the cost of unneeded components. The cluster node configuration
eliminates two hard drive bays and the optical drive, since you don’t
need those for pure processing. Of course, you will want a standard
Xserve for your “head node.” The unique Mac OS X NetBoot feature
makes it easy to manage cluster nodes as if they were a single system.
You can create a centralized disk image on the head node and deploy it
across all the nodes in the compute cluster.
UNIX Power, Apple Ease
Mac OS X Server
gives you a UNIX foundation for implementing open source and
third-party clustering solutions as well as for using familiar UNIX
utilities, shells, scripting languages and compilers to build
specialized software for their work. Mac OS X Server provides you with
a full suite of developer tools, including the gcc command-line
compiler and Xcode, a powerful and easy to use development environment
for creating Mac OS X applications, tools, frameworks, libraries,
plug-ins, kernel extensions and device drivers in C, C++, Objective-C
or Java. You can make a graphical interface for a command line
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PowerPC G5 White Paper
Powerful G5 Processors
The 64-bit G5 processor
ushers in a new era in scientific computing. You get a superscalar,
superpipelined execution core with two double-precision floating-point
units, advanced branch prediction logic and a high-bandwidth frontside
bus, as well as the vector processing Velocity Engine.
Imagine a Cluster
The Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics
gives you the power of the Xserve G5 combined with 200 pre-configured
bioinformatics applications and everything you need to set up a small
cluster with little assistance from IT.
Workgroup Cluster Wins Award
The Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics won Best of Show at Bio-IT World Conference + Expo in Boston.
Build Your Own Supercomputer
Xgrid,
new software from Apple’s Advanced Computation Group, is one of many
solutions for Mac OS X that make managing a supercomputer as easy as
Macintosh.
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