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Preface
About This Supplement
This supplement provides an orientation to the features of
Mac OS X Server version 10.4, a worksheet for installation and
setup, and a setup example.
This supplement to the getting started guide will help you understand how your server
can serve your network users and your business needs.
What’s New in Version 10.4
Mac OS X Server version 10.4 offers major enhancements in the following key areas:
 High-performance computing
 User access management
 Server administration
 Collaboration services
Version 10.4.7 adds support for Macintosh desktop computers and servers that have
Intel processors.
High-Performance Computing
Mac OS X Server offers a high-performance, cost-effective approach to computationally
intensive activities:
 Xgrid service. Xgrid computational service lets you achieve supercomputer
performance levels by distributing computations over collections of dedicated or
shared Mac OS X computers. The Xgrid cluster controller provides centralized access
to the distributed computing pool, referred to as a computational cluster.
 64-bit computing. Support for 64-bit processing includes 64-bit addressable
memory and the ability to run 64- and 32-bit applications simultaneously.
 Accelerated networking. Link aggregation lets you configure several physical
network links as a single logical link to improve the capacity of network connections.
You can also take advantage of jumbo frames and IP over FireWire to optimize
network transmissions.