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To: Paul Engel who wrote (65838)	10/6/1998 7:44:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul - RE: does that mean the 21264 EV6 Alpha has now slipped ANOTHER YEAR ? I don't think there has been any slip in the 21264 chip. This announcement is referring to the crossbar technology known internally as 'wildfire' which was targeted at the 'big machine' category. CPQ is getting such good performance internally on 4-way clusters of 4P Xeon machines that the 'wildfire' machine is looking like an expensive solution to the same problem. Tandem has run a 16-way Xeon cluster (64P) using VI technology and fibre storage that shows better than 90% scaling. That would give virtually the same performance as the biggest 'wildfire' machine at a small fraction of the cost. My suspicion is that this announcement is a prelude to the 'wildfire' machines just disappearing. Remember that the DECUS meeting is this week, CPQ needs to reassure the DEC base that all is well. But why bring a big, expensive, low volume product to market if they have a better, cheaper solution already on the launch pad using high volume components?

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