Apple M9592LL Technology Overview - Page 24

Technology Overview 24 Power Mac G5 Xcode development tools Mac OS X comes with Xcode, a suite of integrated technologies that support custom development of 64-bit applications and autovectorization of your code. Science and Technical Computing The Power Mac G5 gives scientific researchers the ability to achieve fast results. Whether you're doing molecular modeling with PyMOL, searching for DNA alignments with BLAST, analyzing statistics with SPSS, or modeling equations with Mathematica, you'll make discoveries in record time. • With four 64-bit G5 processor cores, four Velocity Engine units, and eight doubleprecision floating-point units, you'll see dramatic acceleration of vectorized and floating-point-intensive applications such as HMMER and BLAST. • The optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card supports stereo 3D visualization in a window for complex data analysis.6 • Up to 16GB of main memory with an ECC option makes light work of enormous tasks, while PCI Express expansion supports Fibre Channel interconnects, the latest data collection devices, and multiple graphics cards for an array of up to eight Apple Cinema Displays.5 • UNIX-based Mac OS X allows you to run complex scientific applications and commandline tools alongside essential productivity applications, such as Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop-all on the same computer and operating system. Scientific visualization and stereo 3D In fields such as molecular modeling, X-ray crystallography, computational chemistry, aerial mapping, or medical imaging, users need to visualize more information than can be represented in a conventional planar display. With the help of an added dimension and stereoscopic technologies, researchers can comprehend extremely large data sets, such as the construct of molecules in a drug or a virus, or extremely complex data, such as a detailed aerial photograph. The optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card features a stereo 3D graphics port, enabling you to use stereo 3D goggles, such as those from Stereo Graphics Corporation, to view an added dimension on your CRT. Stereo-in-a-window support in Mac OS X further enhances visualization, allowing you to designate a quadrant of the display for stereo visualization, while using the other areas of the display concurrently to control the model, edit data, or make notations.6 Thanks to PCI Express expansion, which supports industry-standard PCI Express graphics cards in all four slots, you can connect the new Power Mac G5 to an array of large displays. Each graphics card has two DVI ports, which means a single system can control up to eight Apple Cinema Displays,5 providing an impressive view of geological or meteorological data.