Apple Xserve G5 - Manual

Rack-Optimized Server Design With enormous processing power and ample storage in a compact 1U-high, 19-inch-wide enclosure, Xserve G5 is designed from the ground up for performance, service-ability, and easy integration into a wide range of computing environments. All thenecessary rackmounting hardw...

6 Technology Overview Xserve G5 Most innovative HPC hardware HPCwire, a leading journal of High Performance Computing, gave Apple its Editors Choice award for the hardware vendor delivering the most innovative overall HPC technology in 2003. Xserve G5 Cluster An Xserve G5 cluster uses a dedicated se...

Performance Overview Apple’s new Xserve G5 is designed to deliver phenomenal performance with industry-leading ease of use. Thanks to 64-bit processing power, server-optimized I/O, and ahigh-throughput storage architecture, Xserve G5 is optimized for demanding serverand cluster operations. Apple com...

Two double-precision floating-point units enable the dual 2GHz Xserve G5 to perform the linear equations 8 percent faster than the 3.2GHz Xeon-based servers and 50 percent faster than the 2GHz Opteron-based server. BLAST To demonstrate the advantages of Xserve G5 for processor-intensive scientific a...

HMMer 2.3.3 HMMer is another application that demonstrates the advantages of Xserve G5 with Velocity Engine for processor-intensive scientific analysis. HMMer is a genomesequence–matching application that uses Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to identifysimilarities in genetic structures. The core routin...

WebBench For fast network throughput, Xserve G5 features dual onboard Gigabit Ethernet con-trollers, as well as optimized network drivers and a high-performance BSD networkstack in Mac OS X Server. Apple used WebBench from eTesting Labs to demonstratethe superior web server performance of Xserve G5 ...

PowerPC G5 Processor The breakthrough performance of the 64-bit PowerPC G5 is now available to Appleserver customers. With 64-bit-wide data paths and registers, this revolutionary pro-cessor can address vast amounts of main memory, while handling multiple 64-bit integer and double-precision floating...

Vast amounts of addressable memory The move to 64-bit processing results in a similarly dramatic leap in the amount ofmemory supported. A memory address is a special kind of integer, and each addresspoints to one byte in memory. Since memory addresses are computed in 64-bit regis-ters capable of exp...

Support for up to 8GB of RAM Xserve G5 comes standard with 512MB or 1GB of DDR SDRAM. Main memory is scalableup to 8GB in eight DIMM slots, allowing you to increase memory as application andnetworking requirements increase. More main memory enables the system to run strenuous processes simultaneousl...

Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports deliver near-line-rate throughput of up to 980Mb/s perport, alleviating bottlenecks even with very large files and expediting mail, web, file,and printer sharing services. Together with the multihoming function in Mac OS XServer, dual network ports enable Xserve G5 to ser...

Affordable, Scalable Storage Exponential growth in the creation and distribution of digital content is driving theneed for high-capacity storage in business and education. Large databases, digitalvideo footage, immense scientific data sets, and uncompressed audio all place enormous demands on server...

Apple tested the scalability of Xserve G5 storage using Bonnie++, an open source benchmark that measures drive throughput. This test shows that both read performance and write performance improve as drives are added to the system. Hot-plug Apple Drive Modules The three Xserve drive bays 4 provide af...

Software and Hardware RAID Options Affordable and easy-to-install drive modules make it simple to expand Xserve systemsto meet growing storage needs over time. For even greater storage capacity or toshare storage among multiple servers, high-throughput PCI-X slots enable users toconnect to external ...

Mac OS X ServerVersion 10.3 Xserve G5 ships with Mac OS X Server version 10.3, the fourth major release of Apple’saward-winning server operating system. Mac OS X Server provides open source,standards-based workgroup and Internet services without the complexity inherent in Linux and other UNIX-based ...

Built on open standards, Mac OS X Server is compatible with existing network andcomputing infrastructures. Samba 3, the new version of the popular open sourceSMB/CIFS server, provides reliable file and printer sharing for Windows clients, as wellas support for NT Domain services. The built-in direct...

Mac OS X Server Software Support Apple also offers support programs for Mac OS X Server that extend beyond the up-and-running support provided by the AppleCare Premium Service and Support Plan.Apple technical support experts can provide consultative phone and email support forMac OS X Server integra...

Purchasing Information Standard Configurations Xserve G5 is available in three standard configurations to meet the needs of serverand cluster deployments in education and business. Cluster node Single-processor server Dual processor server Order number M9215LL/A M9216LL/A M9217LL/A Processor Dual 2G...

Technical Specifications Hardware Processor • Single or dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 processors• PowerPC processor architecture with 64-bit data paths and registers• Native support for 32-bit application code• 512K on-chip L2 cache running at processor speed • Parallel execution architecture supporting up t...

Storage • Three internal drive bays on independent 150MB/s SATA channels (server configura- tions); or one internal drive bay on 150MB/s SATA channel (cluster node configuration) • One bay filled with 80GB 7200-rpm SATA Apple Drive Module; empty drive bays on server configurations contain blank modu...

Software Mac OS X Server • Unlimited-client edition (server configurations); or 10-client edition (cluster node configuration) Included services • File and printer sharing: Macintosh (AFP, AppleTalk PAP), Windows (SMB/CIFS), UNIX and Linux (NFS, LPR/LPD), Internet (FTP, WebDAV ) • Directory services...