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Thursday, March 20, 2003
Apple dips toes into clustering - Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Following in the footsteps of larger competitors that sell Intel-based products, Apple Computer has begun offering a version of its server that can be linked in groups, or clusters, capable of tackling mammoth computing tasks. Some Apple customers have been building computing clusters on their own out of Apple's existing dual-processor Xserve systems, but Apple removed some elements of the general-purpose model to cut the price and increase the appeal of the new configuration, said Doug Brooks, Xserve product manager. The system is competitive with current Intel-based products, said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. But Apple has strong competition from Dell Computer, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, all of which already have established businesses selling technical computing cluster products.
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