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Apple Computer introduced the original Xserve in May 2002. Apple classifies the Xserve as "a high-density, 1 U rackmount server that was applauded for its value and versatility." The Xserve came with one or two PowerPC G4 processors running at 1.33 GHz. It had up to 4 IDE hard disk drives and an ATI video card. In March 2003 they introduced the XServe Cluster nodes. These only have one hard drive and no video cards, or optical drives.In 2004 Apple introduced the Xserve G5 a higher-capacity higher-performance and generally better XServe. These have one or two PowerPC 970 processors running at 2GHz. But because of ventilation issues it can only have as many as 3 drives, with the original space for the fourth drive converted to air vents.
Powered by the 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor the XServe G5 is much faster than its predecessor and more suited for High Performance Computing ( HPC) applications.
The Xserve is usually used together with Xserve RAID for mass storage.
The XServe G5 runs Mac OS X 10.3 Server "Panther Server".
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