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To: Paul Engel who wrote (96690)	1/19/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - Intel will offer a low cost RAID kit for low end servers. RAID - Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks - is a technique that writes data across several hard drives, creating redundancy - to enable data recovery should one of the disk drives crash. Here's the story - below. Paul {================================} Intel aims to drive RAID into low-end servers By John S. McCright, PC Week January 18, 2000 12:25 PM PT URL: zdnet.com MONTEREY, Calif. -- Intel Corp. on Wednesday will announce new hardware and software designed to make it easier and cheaper for server and workstation makers to add RAID to their systems. The result, according to officials of the Santa Clara, Calif., company, will be better performance and reliability, particularly for entry-level servers. "If you have a $1,000 server, it's hard to justify a $1,000 RAID controller," said Chris Crotoeau, marketing director for Intel's I/O products division. "We think that by using a building block approach, [original equipment manufacturers] can get [RAID] in for under $300 for a single channel and still benefit end users with reliability and protection." A RAID or disk array is a collection of separate hard drives that are ganged together to operate as a single, virtual hard drive. Specifically, Intel will announce at Strategic Research Corp.'s I/O Technologies Forum and Expo here the immediate availability of the Integrated RAID Design Kit SMU22R for building two-channel Ultra-2 SCSI RAID. The kit, based on Intel's i960 RM I/O processors, includes schematics and descriptions for hardware manufacturing and the Intel Integrated RAID software stack, complete with drivers, utilities and firmware -- all validated with Intel's latest server processors and chip sets. Intel will also make available the KMU21, a kit with a single-channel Ultra-2 SCSI RAID controller. Intel's ultimate goal is to get RAID into all servers. API software for the I/O processor in the kits will enable OEMs to develop features that differentiate their products from one another. For instance, one server maker could tap into the I/O processor to offer an improved hostless backup application, Crotoeau said. Future Intel offerings will let server makers take more processes off the CPU and run them on the I/O processor, Crotoeau said, thus freeing up CPU cycles for important transaction processing. "We don't think that's limited to just RAID and storage," Crotoeau said. Intel is at www.intel.com.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (96690)	1/19/2000 12:35:00 AM
From: bhagavathi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, All I can say is time is a great equalizer. Things will eventually sort out and the market will assign appropriate valuations to the stocks. By the way I was supposed to speculate on the hardware impact of IA-64 to the computing environment. 1) computing power at the hands of individuals will increase by orders of magnitude. This will enable newer applications. 2) Cheaper super computers for all the research institutions. (parallel machines). 3) More reliable computing in the lines of the NEC 32 way systems. Where multiple OSes are existing on the same machine. 4) Better servers for the WWWs. A steady stream of CPU family to be brought by the big CPU designing & fabing company. 5) Better graphics & games on personal stations. 6) Platform/architecture unification for scientific computing. compare to various architecture e.g. IBM,HWP,SUN,SGI,etc. Maybe you can add some more. mula