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Nov 21 9:30 AM EST

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (76286)	4/3/2002 9:07:26 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"Why should there be a limit to 1 or 2 way servers?" Worst case, mainly limited by the market. The base of the whole discussion is the email from "Microprocessor Report" that the Intel supporters are crowing about that questions the viability of the SledgeHammer with the major OEMs since they have all committed to Itanium. I personally don't buy it. Considering the RAS features being built into the SledgeHammer, the likely performance level, and the ease of making a SMP system, it should be compelling. The point that is often ignored is that because HTT simplifies all of the interconnections so much, signal integrity should be higher, thus making the whole system more reliable. In addition, even if none of the major OEMs ever uses SledgeHammer, that still leaves a growing market of the smaller OEMs. They will be able to use SledgeHammer to move out of the 1 and 2 way servers and small clusters that they sell now. Itanium seems to need truly huge caches to work well, and the Hammers in general should not. So there will always be a big cost advantage...

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