[Bioclusters] Apple has a G5 Xserve now!

Mark Komarinski bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500


On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:43, Chris Dagdigian wrote:
> During the MacWorld keynote a few minutes ago Apple just showed a 1U 
> dual G5 Xserve with:
> 
> o dual-G5 CPUs
> o ECC Memory (!);  DDR-400 8GB max
> o 3x serial ATA channels; 3 hotswap drive bays
> o dual GigE etc.
> o 1U form factor 	
> o Shipping Feb'04
> 
> It looks like a G4 Xserve with some funky air vents in the front for 
> more cooling.
> 
> They are also talking now about a new refresh of the XRAID box and 
> announced that they've qualified the FC stuff for use on WinXP and '2 
> versions of Linux'.

That would be RH 7.1 and 8.0.  Not quite 9 or Enterprise, but a great
first step.

-Mark

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