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To: Tony Viola who wrote (99559)	2/20/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony and Intel investors: This article seems to be saying that Willamette has the potential to hold the highest benchmark scores for Floating Point as well as Integer, currently held by CuMine. aceshardware.com "Intel is concentrating on ISSE2: No less than 144 new instructions. If Intel can rally enough support behind ISSE2, the Willamette FPU performance will blow everybody else out of the water, as the ISSE2 FPU performance is vastly superior to the x87 in single precision. A dual ISSE2 unit at 1.4 GHz, the clockspeed at which the fastest Willamette will ship (Q4 2000), would boast a peak of no less than 2 x 4 (SIMD) x 1.4 GHz = 11.2 billion floating-point operations per second (or FLOPS)! The x87 FPU would deliver a measly 1.4 GFLOPS peak. For comparison, if AMD manages to introduce a 1.2 GHz Athlon by the time the Willamette ships, the x87 FPU will peak at 2.4 GFLOPS, while the 3DNow! units will peak at 4.8 GLOPS. All of these numbers are theoretical, of course, but it gives you an idea of how powerful such a SIMD implementation can be. " EP

To: Tony Viola who wrote (99559)	2/20/2000 8:52:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Tony - That's a good demo but CPQ has been running that demo for years, and both IBM and HP have been pushing it for a while as well. Use the Cisco router and some transaction management to send the request to a different web server - it keeps the web server out of the critical path. Go to the CPQ web site and you can find white papers on this from 1997... CPQ calls it DISA architecture. It actually works pretty well. I'm surprised that MSFT didn't do a more powerful demo - there is neat stuff available with Win2K for storage and database fault tolerance which is actually better than what NT4 offered. But I guess some of that is pretty technical and would be hard to showcase in a 5 minute demo.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (99559)	2/21/2000 12:50:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "Gates' demonstration featured 32 Dell PowerEdge 4350 servers, two PowerEdge 6350 servers, two PowerEdge 8450 servers and one Dell PowerVault 650F Fibre Channel Storage System featuring 90 GB of storage, all optimized in height to deliver more power in less space-a key requirement for Web-based or service provider business models. The demonstration also featured 500 Dell OptiPlex™ GX110 desktop PCs and four Dell Precision 420 WorkStations running Windows 2000 Professional. The Dell systems demonstrated are available with Windows 2000 factory installed. Additional information on these products is available at www.dell.com. " Care to calculate how many Intel CPUs were taking part in that demo ? Paul