At the introduction of the Power Mac G5, Apple announced a partnership with IBM in which IBM would continue to produce PowerPC variants of their POWER processors. The PowerPC "G5" (actually called the PowerPC 970 by its manufacturer, IBM) is based upon IBM's dual-core POWER4 microprocessor. The computer was soon dismantled and replaced with a new cluster made of an equal number of Xserve G5 rack-mounted servers, which also use the G5 chip running at 2.3 GHz. The supercomputer managed to become one of the top 5 supercomputers that year. supercluster) known as " System X", consisting of 1100 Power Mac G5s operating as processing nodes.
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Steve Jobs stated during his keynote presentation that the Power Mac G5 would reach 3 GHz "within 12 months." This would never come to pass after three years, the G5 only reached 2.7 GHz (or dual-core at 2.5 GHz) before being replaced by the Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro, which includes processors with speeds of up to 3.2 GHz.Īlso during the presentation, Apple showed Virginia Tech's Mac OS X computer cluster supercomputer (a.k.a. The dual-processor model also included an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card. The 1.8 and dual-processor 2.0 GHz models shipped with 512 MB of RAM, and could employ a maximum of 8 GB of RAM. The 1.6 GHz model shipped with 256 MB of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive, and could employ a maximum of 4 GB of RAM. The Power Mac G5 was introduced with three models, sharing the same physical case, but differing in features and performance. The Power Mac G5 has an anodized aluminum chassis.
It was officially launched as part of Steve Jobs' keynote presentation in June 2003 at the Worldwide Developers Conference, and saw three revisions to the line before being retired in August 2006 to make way for its Intel replacement, the Mac Pro. The professional-grade computer was the most powerful in Apple's lineup when it was introduced, and was touted by Apple as the fastest personal computer ever built. Baseprice = USD$1999 ( as of 2006)The Power Mac G5 is Apple's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh which contain the PowerPC G5 CPU.
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