Apple Xserve G5

The advanced G5 architecture provides an industry-leading front-side bus dedicated to each CPU as well as up to 16GB DDR SDRAM with ECC protection. That’s room enough to hold entire data sets in memory, whether you’re processing nanoscale electronics, rendering movies or caching websites. In addition, Xserve G5 features dual Gigabit Ethernet on the motherboard, which, combined with the high bandwidth system controller, means you won’t get contention between your network traffic and other I/O.

efficiency pays

And all that power won't heat up your server closet nearly as much as the competition. Even at 2.3 GHz, the advanced G5 processor consumes at most 55W per processor. Compare that to 89W for an Opteron or 110W for a Xeon. The Xserve G5 consumes less power from the wall, you get lower heat output into your data center, reducing its cooling needs. That results in lower HVAC bills, or lets you put more Xserve G5 servers in the same amount of space for the same cost. An added bonus, lower power draws make for longer run-times on UPS systems, if configured.

power comes standard

Designed to deliver the UNIX-based strengths and cutting-edge capabilities of Mac OS X Server, this rack-optimized server offers phenomenal processing power, massive storage capacity — up to 1.5TB — and remote management tools that make it a snap to deploy and maintain. Add Xserve RAID to hold up to 7TB of data.

rack them up

At just 1.75 inches thick, the Xserve 1U form factor enables you to deploy a formidable array of up to 84 G5 processors in a 42U rack that makes the best possible use of the floor space in your server room or data center. The server units have been designed to fit industry-standard four-post and telco racks, and come complete with all the required mounting hardware.

heavy metal

The Xserve cluster node configuration is ideal for High Performance Computing (HPC) in scientific and technical environments, as well as for workgroup clusters and render farms. The G5 processor’s superscalar, superpipelined architecture supports up to 215 simultaneous in-flight instructions with a high-bandwidth execution core offering over 12 discrete functional units, including dual floating-point units and dual integer units, to process immense instructions in parallel — and of course, with 64-bit precision on 64-bit wide data paths. And by subtracting the components better suited to server tasks, Xserve cluster node delivers extremely low price per gigaflop performance.

innovation comes standard

Each Xserve model features dual FireWire 800 ports, one FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports, an industry standard DB-9 serial port. You can expand the system using the latest 133MHz PCI-X expansion protocol with throughput of 1GBps. Add one PCI-X card running at 133MHz or 2 cards running up to 100MHz. Blinking LEDs show you at a glance how your system is running. But when you’re down the hall or halfway around the planet, Xserve’s critically acclaimed monitoring and management tools let you keep your finger on the pulse of your network.

robust server OS without per-user “taxes”

Xserve G5 comes with Mac OS X Server, the UNIX-based server operating system that gives you a complete suite of standards-based network services. You can serve thousands of users — without spending thousands of additional dollars in licensing fees.* Whether you have Mac, Windows, UNIX or Linux clients — or a combination thereof — Mac OS X Server provides cross-platform support for native file sharing, as well as Apache web server and WebDAV server, POP and IMAP mail, ftp, QuickTime Streaming Server, DNS and DHCP — right out of the box. Windows, UNIX and Linux are not treated any differently, and will enjoy benefits that Mac users take for granted.*

1.5TB in 1U

Xserve offers three independent Serial ATA drive channels*, which can be configured with up to 1.2TB of internal storage per 1U server with an optional hardware RAID adapter for hardware RAID 0,1 and 5.

* Specifications differ for Xserve cluster configuration