Apple’s future server business has to be seen in conjuncture with the new multi-processor technologies due in Snow Leopard. There are other markets where Apple and the Xserve already has some traction, and those are academic research and the science industries. Here, users need access to as much computational power as possible. HPC [High Performance Computing], generally based on networks of Linux machines, are the more popular tool, but Apple has gained some ground due to the ease with which its Xgrid software can be used to control similar arrays of Macs.
Is Apple Preparing a Supercomputer Push?
October 31, 2008