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To: NightOwl who wrote (5545)	11/20/1996 11:11:00 AM
From: L. Adam Latham	of 186894

NightOwl: Re: Questions about Sequent and Intel > Wondering if you are familiar with the work Sequent is doing... Sequent and Intel (and Oracle) planned to develop and deliver interactive multimedia servers for video-on-demand back in mid-1995 (see sequent.com ). I don't know if this is still ongoing. Consumer research on the interest and profitability of video-on-demand has been conducted for several years, and IMO I don't think it was found to be viable at present (at least I am not offered this service from _my_ cable company). Sequent's NUMA-Q scalable architecture can support up to 32 Pentium (or Pentium Pro) processors, according to: sequent.com I'm not sure whether Sequent uses IA exclusively, but I couldn't find a reference to anything other than Pentium or Pentium Pro processors in their literature. > One might assume that Intel is at least aware of the methods they use to link the CPU's to the system main memory. I don't know if Sequent is using their own proprietary architecture, or if they're using COTS parts (more on this may be buried in their Web site somewhere). Intel's large scalable systems (i.e. the Teraflops architecture) use custom (i.e. expensive) VLSI mesh routing chips and network interface chips to speed up the communication between processors, and I don't know if it could be economically scaled down for use in PCs. See: ssd.intel.com Adam

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