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To: Ali Chen who wrote (83236)	12/16/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: Windsock	Respond to of 1571129

Ali - Re: "There is no need to argue with that arrogant but fairly ignorant youth." It is interesting to see that the yapping dog is getting noisy again and is still going around snapping at the ankles of his betters.

To: Ali Chen who wrote (83236)	12/16/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571129

Ali, Dan, on Tench's claim that multi-channel RDRAM is the ideal memory system for servers. Tench's holy grail is to have so many RAMBUS channels open at once that each of dozens of tasks in the server can keep a couple pipelines open to memory at all times. This is a noble thought, but a server with multi-giga-ops of CPU power will likely have hundreds of simultaneous tasks, overwhelming the RAMBUS system with merciless thrashing and reducing its performance to SDRAM. Don't I remember reading that the number of open pipes (wrong terminology?) to RAMBUS memory was recently reduced by a factor of two to reduce power dissipation in the RIMM's? Also, it seems to me that keeping more memory pipes open increases the necessary number of snoop transactions in an SMP system exponentially. Your and Tench's comments would be appreciated. Petz