Apple Xserve

Mark Hahn hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca
Tue Oct 8 10:09:28 PDT 2002


> FYI: Apple has a nice ad in the Oct. 2002 IEEE Spectrum for its "Xserve" 1U

Apple is a company that sells really great capital-D Design.
their hardware is just a sideline ;)

> server, which they claim is also "perfect for computational clustering".  The

well, "perfect" iff you are very cache-friendly, can make effective use of 
their SIMD, and are substantially price-insensitive.

Dear Steve: please make your next XServe a dual-Opteron!




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