Although the Xserve RAID contained 14 drives, they were split into two independent groups of 7 drives each managed by an identical RAID controller.

The first generation Intel-based Macintoshes were released in January 2006, and Steve Jobs announced the last models to switch in August 2006, with the Mac Pro available immediately and with the Intel Xserve available by October 2006.

The Xserve servers were available in December 2006.

Xsan is Apple Inc .' s storage area network ( SAN ) or clustered file system for Mac OS X. Xsan enables multiple Mac desktop and Xserve systems to access shared block storage over a Fibre Channel network.

Mac OS X Server was provided as the operating system for Xserve computers, rack mounted server computers designed by Apple.

Xserve was a line of rack unit computers designed by Apple Inc. for use as servers.

While accepting orders for the current model until January 31, 2011, and honoring all Xserve warranties and extended support programs, the company suggested users switch to Mac Pro Server or Mac mini Server.

Virginia Tech's system was the model for Xseed, a smaller system also made from Xserve servers and built by Bowie State University in Maryland.

K32 is the default kernel for 10. 6 Server when used on all machines except newer Mac Pro and Xserve models ( 2008 and later ) and can run 64-bit applications.

Apple's industrial design team, headed by British designer Jonathan Ive, converged around a minimalist aesthetic — the Titanium G4's design language laid the groundwork for the Aluminum PowerBook G4, the MacBook Pro, the Power Mac G5, the flat-screen iMac, the Xserve, and the Mac mini.

Also, Apple certified Xserve RAID for use with some other vendors ' servers, such as those running Windows Server 2003 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

One particularly high-profile project of the ACG is Apple / Genentech BLAST ( an algorithm for comparing biological sequences, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins ) which runs several times faster on Power Mac and Xserve than generic BLAST runs on other platforms.

" Complete interoperability with Apple ’ s Xsan and Promise RAID and Allows Xsan and Xserve RAID to support AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows clients, including support for 64 Bit Windows and Windows Vista.

Students and faculty have access to new state-of-the-art equipment such as a motion capture studio for research in animation, ergonomics and interactive entertainment, a CNC machine for cutting prototypes in new shapes and forms, thermal printers, spatial, full-body and flatbed scanners for work in 2D and 3D, a Bailey kiln for proto-typing in ceramics and industrial design, digital HD video cameras, and an Apple Xserve server system for high speed rendering, as well as the more traditional resources available at the University.

On November 16, 2006 Apple released version 3. 1 which provides support for the new Intel-based Xserve Lights Out Management feature.

Xserve RAID was a mass-storage device that was offered by Apple Inc. Xserve RAID held up to 14 hot-swappable Ultra-ATA hard drives, and had a capacity of 10. 5 TB when filled with 750 GB modules.

Xserve RAID supported RAID levels of 0, 0 + 1, 1, 3 and 5 in hardware, hybrid RAID levels such as 10 and 50 could be created in software.

Other past Macintosh lines which used PowerPC processors include the PowerBook 5300 and later models, iMac, iBook and Xserve as well as the Apple Network Server, which was not technically a Macintosh.

* Hardware, including: iPhone, iPad, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, iPod, Apple Cinema Displays, AirPort cards and base stations, Xserve, and Apple accessories such as wireless keyboards and mice.

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.

A small Xserve cluster with an Xserve RAID.

When the Xserve was introduced in 2002, it was Apple's first designated server hardware design since the Apple Network Server in 1996.

On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that it would not be developing a future version of Xserve.

Apple released their 970FX-powered machines throughout 2004: the Xserve G5 in January, the Power Mac G5 in June, and the iMac G5 in August.

In 2002 Apple announced the rack mounted server Xserve, in 2003 the consumer-oriented iSight and the Power Mac G5, in 2004 the redesigned Apple Cinema Displays, in 2005 the transition of Apple computers from IBM's PowerPC microprocessor line to Intel's line of x86 processors, and in 2006 the Xeon-based Mac Pro and Xserve.

At the same time, more enterprise-oriented content was added, focusing a lot on the Xserve and Mac OS X Server operating system.

An Xserve update was also announced, based as well on the dual core Xeons.

In 2004, Virginia Tech upgraded its computer to Apple's newly-released, Xserve G5 servers.

Apple then released the Mac Pro and announced the new Xserve on August 8, completing the Intel transition in 210 days, roughly ten months ahead of the original schedule.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

They were notably influenced by songs of African-Americans, such as those sung whilst manually loading vessels with cotton in ports of the southern United States.

Canal barges, towed by draft animals on a waterway adjacent towpath were of fundamental importance in the early industrial revolution, whose major early engineering projects were efforts to build viaducts, aqueducts and especially canal to fuel and feed the raw materials to the nascent factories being born in the early industrial takeoff, and take their goods to the ports and cities for distribution.

Of the original 8 and 16 bit ports, the NES and Game Boy ones were made by Taito themselves.

The Commodore 64 and Spectrum versions were made by UK-based Firebird Software, and most of the other computer ports by US-based Novalogic.

Among these were Genoese officials stationed in various Mediterranean ports, whose role included helping Genoese merchants and sailors in difficulties with the local authorities.

Given that the ColecoVision could produce near arcade-quality ports, industry magazines like Electronic Games were unanimous in their enthusiasm over the console.

Except for the city of Santo Domingo, which managed to maintain some legal exports, Dominican ports were forced to rely on contraband trade, which, along with livestock, became the sole source of livelihood for the island dwellers.

After the Spanish and Portuguese ports were closed to the Dutch ships, the Republic began to show interest for trading in the Atlantic region.

London's docks were unable to accommodate the much larger vessels needed by containerization and the shipping industry moved to deep-water ports such as Tilbury and Felixstowe.

This resulted in considerable problems for the Pakistani government, particularly its customs bureau who realized that many of the items being resold on the black market in Pakistan were the very same items being allowed duty free exemption from Pakistani ports ( mainly Karachi ) on their way to Afghanistan.

The main blockade targets were the important ports, since neither Carthage nor Rome were based in Sicily and both needed continuous reinforcements and communication with the mainland.

But one reason the war bogged down into stalemate on the landward side was because ancient navies were ineffective at maintaining seaward blockades of enemy ports.

Beginning in the 1790s, the ports of Stonington and New Haven, Connecticut were leaders of the American fur seal trade, which primarily entailed clubbing fur seals to death on uninhabited South Pacific islands, skinning them, and selling the hides in China.

Four ports – Shekou, Shenzhen, Macau and Humen ( Dongguan ) – were initially served.

The most important British ports were London and Richborough, whilst the continental ports most heavily engaged in trade with Britain were Boulogne and the sites of Domburg and Colijnsplaat at the mouth of the river Scheldt.

The tobacco trade collapsed during the American Revolution ( 1776 – 83 ), when its sources were cut off by the British blockade of American ports.

The ports of south India were engaged in the Indian Ocean trade, chiefly involving spices, with the Roman Empire to the west and Southeast Asia to the east.

Fascist policy aimed at the creation of an Italian empire and Southern Italian ports were strategic for all commerce towards the colonies.