Intel-Xserve cluster node due in Oct.
updated 07:45 pm EDT, Wed August 16, 2006
Intel-Xserve cluster node
Apple plans on shipping a Xeon-based Xserve cluster node variation of its Xserve server line along with the previously announced Xeon-based Xserve, according to a new report. It is expected to ship in October--alongside the Intel-based Xserve, which was introduced earlier this month at Apple's developer conference. The cluster node variation of the Xserve, which has been used in variety of top 500 supercomputer projects, does not have all of the standard computing parts such as an optical drive and video ports to conserve costs. CNET News.com reports that "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." All of the Xserve's will use the "Woodcrest" Xeon chip, which was introduced by Intel in June and ships in Apple's professional Mac Pro systems.











Sad days
08/16, 11:31pm reply
Apple wil lose out in the cluster market. Now they use the same chip as everybody else.
Terrin
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How you figure that?
08/17, 08:24am reply
Dell is more expensive.
MacScientist
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it's not the chip
08/17, 10:33am reply
being a cluster node is not the chip, but providing a product that is as powerful, but costs less. Basically a no-frills server; a plug-n-play brain in a box.
Hobeaux
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There is a little thing
08/17, 12:43pm reply
called Software.
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