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To: Paul Engel who wrote (93468)	12/7/1999 2:41:00 AM
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Intel Investors - More Details about IBM's Chip Set for IA/64 processors. "The first products to feature the Summit chipset, which is focused on Intel's IA-64 architecture, will be available in late 2001, according to Bradicich. " Although this sounds intriguing, it appears to be about 2 years into the future. Maybe they will buy some Intel Chip Sets in the mean time. Paul {==============================} infoworld.com IBM to revamp Netfinity core chipset for Windows 2000 By Bob Trott IBM will announce a new core chipset for its Netfinity product line in early 2000 that is designed to improve the server's scalability and availability, officials said, at Big Blue's Center for Microsoft Technologies here on Monday. With the chipset, called Summit, the goal is to further IBM's OnForever Windows server initiative, according to Tom Bradicich, Netfinity architecture program director. "We can't find scalability, performance and, most importantly, high availability in a commodity chipset," said Bradicich. "[Summit] will be blazingly fast, extremely reliable and highly scalable." For microprocessors, the core chipset will enhance partitioning and hot-swapping capabilities, and will serve as a multiprocessing building block, Bradicich said. On the input/output (I/O) end of the system, Summit will incorporate remote I/O (RIO), which is not yet an industry standard; double PCI-X capabilities for keeping systems online all the time; and embrace the InfiniBand I/O initiative being worked on by IBM, Microsoft, and others. InfiniBand, which should be published in specification form in the first quarter of 2000, is a technology that will allow direct channel connections between multiple I/O devices, so one failure will not bring down an entire system. "I/O is slow, and the multiprocessor is fast, so therefore often the multiprocessor waits (on I/O)," Bradicich said. The first products to feature the Summit chipset, which is focused on Intel's IA-64 architecture, will be available in late 2001, according to Bradicich. Bradicich spoke at Big Blue's press briefing on support for Microsoft's Windows 2000, which is due to ship to manufacturing by the end of the year, and launch on Feb. 17. IBM's Center for Microsoft Technology, based in Kirkland, Wash., is at www.ibm.corp/. Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., is at www.microsoft.com/. Bob Trott is an InfoWorld associate news editor based in Seattle.