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Technology Stocks : Network Appliance
NTAP 108.52-0.8%12:07 PM EST
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To: HDC who wrote (3878)8/4/2000 10:12:30 PM
From: DownSouth  Read Replies (2) of 10934
 
Duncan, current NTAP products configured with fibre channel use Emulex components, I am almost positive. (I looked for confirmation of this on the NTAP web site, but couldn't find one.)

You may be right.

BTW, during my search on www.netapp.com I came across this paragraph in a technical document describing clustered failover. I think this paragraph may give us a hint about what is coming.

Future
Clustered Failover is the first step in an architecture designed to provide scalable file service by forming clusters of machines interconnected by a NUMA network. The cluster will be seen by clients and administrators as a single, large highly available file server. The individual nodes in the cluster can failover to other nodes using CF techniques. The data transfer for requests that span nodes will occur via direct memory-to-memory transfer over the high speed NUMA interconnect.
The NUMA interconnect will scale with the cluster by using NUMA switches. The relatively small cells and flow-controlled links used by ServerNet (and most other NUMA technologies) allow low cost, high bandwidth, ASIC-based, switches to be constructed. NUMA technology also allows clusters to be built up over time using nodes that use new and different technology. All that is required is that a node has a simple PCI connection, rather than a connection to a proprietary coherent bus as in CC-NUMA.

netapp.com
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