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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (90404)	10/15/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Early tests of Intel "8 way" systems> I didn't know Intel was making any 8-way chipsets for Merced/Itanium. 460GX is 4-way. Maybe they're talking about Profusion. But that's a Xeon chipset, and I haven't heard of any plans for any Profusion proliferation supporting Itanium. Or maybe they're talking about some 8-way chipset that isn't made by Intel. There are several, I believe. Tenchusatsu

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (90404)	10/15/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

John - Re: " What do you make of this. I thought INTC had this problem pretty well in hand....Early tests of Intel "8 way" systems indicate that they offer only a 40% performance boost over 4 processor systems when serving 20 clients" Thus sounds COMPLETELY F*CKED UP ! As far as I know, Intel HAS NO 8-way ITANIUM/MERCED systems - nor does any one else !!!! The IDIOT must have confused his muddeld brain with the 8-way XEON/Profusion systems ! Now the HotRAIL argument : "To further exacerbate the problem, HotRail Inc. claims to have a solution that will support the optimal use of 8 processors, based around AMD's Athalon. This could leave Intel with an very inferior solution to AMD for the first time in its history." Note that the BOZO can't even spell ATHLON ! Sure - now all they have to do is complete the design, build the part and see if it even works....then find some software that supports it !! The idiot author took the common approach of trashing something that exists - and predicts better performance for a new device that DOESN'T exist. Bogus article - totally bogus. By the way - Re: "Early tests of Intel "8 way" systems indicate that they offer only a 40% performance boost over 4 processor systems when serving 20 clients" This performance is LARGELY dependent upon SOFTWARE as well as hardware. My "guess" is that a preliminary version of WIndows 2000 - or a proprietary EXTENSION to Windows NT 4.0 - was used to make the "estimates". Paul