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To: Paul Engel who wrote (87606)	9/2/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: Pigboy	Respond to of 186894

INTEL CHECKIN' OUT FIBRE CHANNEL. Who Wants Speed? Come on, who wants speed? ;-) Storage ain't about Scuzzball SCSI anymore. Network those things...all of them. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Ancor Provides Fibre Channel Switches for Intel Server Cluster Keynote Demonstration Ancor's Scalable Multistage Architecture Required for Multi-Tier Internet-Based Application MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Fibre Channel switches from Ancor Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: ANCR - news) were used to provide scalable data storage in Intel's Internet-based enterprise application demonstration today at the Intel Developer's Forum (IDF) '99 in Palm Springs, Calif. ``As Internet- and intranet-based computing is increasing the demand for powerful servers and server clusters, Intel-based servers featuring the Pentium(r) III Xeon(tm) processor deliver on that demand, providing scalability and headroom,' said Ball Raleigh, Director of Marketing for Intel's Enterprise Server Group. ``Products such as Ancor's switches provide flexibility and performance to meet scalability demands.' The storage area network (SAN) fabric, featuring several Ancor MKII 16-port switches in Ancor's Multistage topology provides fault-tolerant storage access to a cluster of database servers linked via a Giganet cLAN high-speed System Area Network. Ancor's switches provide the servers with up to gigabit-speed access to CLARiiON Full Fibre Channel disk arrays storing over a terabyte of data. ``This real-world application shows the important role that switched SANs play in supporting e-business applications,' said Ken Hendrickson, Ancor's CEO. ``From the demonstration's high-performance Intel server clusters down through the system area network to Ancor's switches, it's all about the ability to scale without compromising reliability and performance. That's what sets Ancor switches apart.' The demonstration includes components from Ancor, CLARiiON, Dell, Giganet, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and QLogic. Ancor's switches provide the backbone for the demonstration's storage subsystem, connecting a system of four multiprocessor database servers with several CLARiiON storage devices. The SAN fabric delivers two-way gigabit/sec. data transfer among all devices with no single point of failure. About Ancor Communications Ancor Communications Inc. provides scalable, high-performance Fibre Channel switches for storage and data-intensive network solutions, including storage area networks (SANs). The company was the first to deliver a Fibre Channel switch, and the first to top the one-gigabit performance level. Ancor is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Alliance, the Fibre Channel Community, the ANSI Standards Committee, and the University of New Hampshire Fibre Channel Consortium to promote the advancement of Fibre Channel standards and interoperability. Information on Ancor is available on the World Wide Web at ancor.com . Forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 are qualified by the risk factors outlined in the documents Ancor Communications, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SOURCE: Ancor Communications Inc. n_ancor_c_1.html

To: Paul Engel who wrote (87606)	9/2/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<Curry said the Merced will be competitive with the latest PA-RISC, is faster than Sun Microsystems Inc.'s UltraSparc-III, and will outperform the 64-bit Alpha chip marketed by Alpha Processor Inc.> But Chuck on the AMD thread said that Athlon will be faster than Merced. Does that mean that Athlon will be faster than PA-RISC, UltraSparc, and Alpha? ;-) Anyway, this is the first time I ever heard an Intel representative compare Merced's potential performance to its competitors. Before, the theme was "world-class performance" without naming any names. To be sure, talk is cheap, even coming from Intel. At least there's a good chance we'll all find out in mid-2000 (and not late-2000, or mid-2001, or whatever else the press wants to say). Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Engel who wrote (87606)	9/2/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Tony & Intel Investors - Intel's Position on Merced - a PRODUCTION CPU Thanks for the article. That's what Jim Carlson, Marketing Director for HP 's WS/Server Division has been saying. Who cares what the naysayers come out with, it's Jim's job to tell it like it is. Silicon Graphics Inc. plans to build a 512-way Merced implementation, he added. There's your Cray replacement. Adam ought to get one of these to play with! Curry declined to reveal the Merced's final performance specifications or clock speed. He did say, however, that the chip will process 6 gigaflops (6 billion single-precision floating point operations per second), or 3 Gflops when processing double-precision floating-point calculations. Thats equivalent to several mainframes on a chip. However, the mainframe MIPs, or thousands of MIPs, are measured with benchmarks that simulate real workloads. I'm not sure how Merced or other microprocessor MIPs are measured. Now that Intel does have a chip that processes up in the mainframe and Sun Starfire region, they ought to come out with some comparison factors. Of course, they have done some of this with these statements: Curry said the Merced will be competitive with the latest PA-RISC, is faster than Sun Microsystems Inc.'s UltraSparc-III, and will outperform the 64-bit Alpha chip marketed by Alpha Processor Inc. Merced continues to look all good at Intel. Keep it going, guys and gals. Tony