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To: KJ. Moy who wrote (24997)	12/1/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: trendmastr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

The Big Apple next week - 2 "events" Date: 12/07/99 Sponsors: Salomon Smith Barney Location: Sheraton NY Hotel City/State: New York NY Special Comments: Program: 7:00am Registration 7:45 Welcome: SBSH-Dean/Analyst 8:00 BRCD StorageNetworks 8:50 NTAP ADIC Chaparral Technologies 9:40 DELL MXTR XIOTech 10:30 BMC ADPT DataDirect 11:20 VRTS ANCR Dothill 12:15pm Luncheon Presentation 1:20 STK ZOOX CommVault 2:10 SUNW QLGC 3:00 CPQ EMLX CrossStor 3:50 HDD LGTO 4:40 Keynote Presentation: EMC Co ____________________________________________________________ Date: 12/09/99 Time: Symbol: ANCR Location: City/State: New York NY Special Comments:

To: KJ. Moy who wrote (24997)	12/2/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

K.J., >>Based on the exciting nature of SUN's business and what they are going to bring to the table for Ancor, I think they deserve more warrents.<< It's getting more exciting too, but let them buy up their original warrants first. <g> Sun steps up supercomputing push By: Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com 12/2/99 4:57:00 PM Source: News.com Sun Microsystems, nipping at the heels of rival computer maker SGI, has put in a bid for a contract to design a supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory that will simulate nuclear explosions, Sun has confirmed. The supercomputer bid highlights Sun's effort to muscle its way into the market for high-performance, number-crunching computers, which both government and businesses are increasingly demanding. Airline companies in particular are interested in these machines, called "big iron," so they can tackle computationally intense task such as scheduling planes, said Steve MacKay, vice president of architecture and technology at Sun. If Sun wins the contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory supercomputer, it will be made of lots of top-end Sun servers connected through a high-speed interconnection system. The news confirms reports that Sun was among the bidders. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun's bid is based on the sequel to the company's current 64-processor E10000 computer, MacKay said. The newer machine, which will accommodate more than 100 of Sun's upcoming UltraSparc-III chips, will be released midway through 2000, he said. By ganging many of these systems together, the supercomputer would use thousands of processors in total, he said. The nuclear weapon simulation supercomputer--to be installed at the federally funded lab in 2001--will be able to perform about 30 trillion calculations per second, a speed known as 30 teraflops. It's one of several systems in the Department of Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, or ASCI, which aims to push U.S. computing companies ahead faster than they otherwise would move by partially underwriting research and development expenses. The ASCI contracts awarded so far have been worth tens of millions of dollars to Intel, IBM and SGI. "We are confident we can deliver 30 teraflops," MacKay said. "The question is whether we can deliver it when ASCI wants it." <snip> IBM, which has won contracts for lesser machines at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, isn't a bidder in the race for the 30-teraflop machine, the company has said. In the nuclear weapons program, the Energy Department expects to fund two even more powerful systems after the 30-teraflop machine, officials have said. The bidding process for the 30-teraflop machine allows lesser performance as a tradeoff for an earlier delivery date or, conversely, a later delivery date for a more powerful system, a source familiar with the bidding process said. Sun's bid is based on an architecture somewhat similar to IBM's current supercomputers, which are based on machines using several multi-chip nodes communicating over a high-speed interconnection system. But Sun's method involves fewer nodes with more chips each. IBM, like Sun, is working on a high-speed switch to interconnect the nodes. Sun's bid is based on a system that's relatively ordinary -- everything in it except that high-speed switch is part of Sun's regular product line, MacKay said. "The big advantage from our standpoint is that we're doing only one unique thing for the...teraflop machine: this very high-speed, low-latency interconnect," he said. (cont'd) cnetinvestor.com