PRESS RELEASE
April 7, 2009
Features Next Generation Architecture and Intel “Nehalem” Xeon Processors
- a single 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Xeon 5500 series processor with 8MB of fully shared L3 cache;
- 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC RAM;
- a single 160GB 7200 rpm SATA Apple Drive Module;
- dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board;
- two PCI Express 2.0 x16 expansion slots;
- Bonjour®-enabled Lights-Out Management processor and Server Monitor Software;
- internal graphics with Mini DisplayPort output;
- two FireWire® 800 and three USB 2.0 ports; and
- an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard.
*Testing conducted by Apple in February 2009 using a preproduction 2.93 GHz 8-core Xserve (2 chips, 8 cores, 4 cores per chip, 2.93 GHz; SPECjbb2005 bops = 203,439, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 50,860) and a shipping 3.0 GHz 8-core Xserve (2 chips, 8 cores, 4 cores per chip, 3.0 GHz; SPECjbb2005 bops = 103,387, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 25,847). SPEC® and SPECjbb2005® are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in February 2009. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve.
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