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To: Paul Engel who wrote (96853)	3/5/2000 12:22:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572298

Correct me if I'm wrong - but Compaq HAS NOT YET DELIVERED one of these "Supercomputers" You are correct. But WildFire hasn't begun shipping yet. The SC uses the Quadrics switch which can support up to 128 nodes. I believe all the Europeans bought is 60-80 WildFires lashed together with a Quadrics switch. They may have bought as few as 64 or so as the PR states 2000 to 2500 CPUs. But you can buy something similar today using ES40s lashed together and they have sold a few of those, most notably a large University in Tokyo. Ordering info: digital.com "And when they do, it will probably the one and ONLY supercomputer of thet type they deliver - if history serves us well." Absolutely not... they have an architecture and CPU that obviously scales if they can get 5 Teraflops out of 2500 CPUs... you must be thinking of Intel and their failed high-end solution... IBM and SGI the last few years have dominated this space but Compaq AlphaServers will be showing up there much more often as their CPUs are quite a bit more powerful from here on out (EV7, EV8). "The way the EV68 is going, I wouldn't be surprised if McKinley systems shipped BEFORE EV68 systems ship." He he he... we'll see. Rob