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To: Paul Engel who wrote (105580)	7/13/2000 3:45:19 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - IBM launches 4-Way SMP 800 Mhz Pentium III XEON Servers !!! The first in its class to hold four of Intel Corp.'s latest 800MHz Pentium III Xeon processors in a 7-inch frame, the Netfinity 6000R is a good buy for IT managers looking for a highly available, space-saving server for Web-hosting or e-business applications. Maybe the babbling idiots in the news media seem to have forgotten that Intel makes a 256L2 cache version of this chip !!! Paul {==============================} zdnet.com IBM Server is Ready for E-Biz By Francis Chu, eWEEK Labs July 10, 2000 12:00 AM ET IBM's Netfinity 6000R rack-mount, four-way server combines the latest processor technology, solid performance and excellent management features in a compact form factor. IT managers will find the new box to be a potent enterprise-class server for today's data center applications. The first in its class to hold four of Intel Corp.'s latest 800MHz Pentium III Xeon processors in a 7-inch frame, the Netfinity 6000R is a good buy for IT managers looking for a highly available, space-saving server for Web-hosting or e-business applications. eWeek Labs tested a decked-out 6000R with four 800MHz Pentium III Xeon processors, a Gigabit PCI card and an embedded 10/100M-bps Ethernet adapter. The $41,887 box also included 2GB of RAM, six 9GB hot-swappable hard drives and a Serve RAID-4H Ultra 160 RAID controller. Lower-end versions of the 6000R are priced from a competitive $8,162. The 800MHz 6000R will ship later this month, when Intel increases the supply of the new processors, according to an IBM spokesman. IBM already sells versions with 700MHz processors. An important distinguishing feature of the 6000R was its integrated system management processor, which enables administrators to remotely diagnose, monitor and reboot the server. The management card works with the Netfinity Director software, which is based on a Tivoli Systems Inc. management agent, to perform predictive failure analysis on processors, memory, fans, power supplies and hard drives. Administrators can also manage multiple Netfinity servers across the network and inventory each system component. We tested the 6000R's performance by benchmarking it against an older four-way server -- Compaq Computer Corp.'s ProLiant 7000. The ProLiant 7000 has four 450MHz Pentium III Xeon processors, 1GB of RAM and six Ultra 2 drives. Hard disks are configured the same way on both servers, using RAID Level 5 for the data volume and RAID Level 0 for the operating system volume. Both servers were running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 Advance Server. Not surprisingly, given the difference in processing horsepower, the 6000R outperformed the ProLiant 7000 in three Ziff Davis Media Inc. benchmarks: NetBench 6.0, ServerBench 4.1 and WebBench 3.0. In NetBench, which measures a server's throughput for file read-and-write requests from clients, the 6000R outperformed the ProLiant by a small margin, reaching 368Mbps compared with the 348Mbps posted by the ProLiant. The similarity in performance on this test is likely due to the servers' similar disk configurations. In ServerBench, which measures server response to client loads in a high-transaction environment, the 6000R achieved a solid throughput of 3,279 transactions per second, whereas the ProLiant attained a maximum throughput of 1,994 transactions per second. The 6000R also performed well in the WebBench test, which measures server response speed to requests from Web-browsing clients. We ran the Internet Server API suite to simulate dynamic Web content: The 6000R processed more than 3,100 requests per second, compared with 2,438 requests per second for the ProLiant. The strong performance in the WebBench and ServerBench benchmarks shows that the 6000R is best-suited as a Web or application server. Its limited number of hard drives makes it less suitable for use as a file server. Focus on Reliability IBM has targeted the 6000R toward data center environments and highly reliable applications, building strong redundancy features into the server. Three hot-swappable redundant power supplies are located conveniently behind the front panel for easy service. The error-correcting code SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM) uses IBM's Chipkill technology, which corrects memory errors as large as 4 bits, allowing a partly failed memory chip to function until replaced. The internal hot-swap cooling fans and six hot-plug PCI slots, five of which are 64-bit, can be easily accessed via the latch on the top cover. The 6000R we tested had 2GB of SDRAM but is expandable to 16GB, making it plenty scalable for most enterprise applications. The 6000R includes a four-channel ServeRAID-4H Ultra3 RAID controller with 128MB of cache to handle up to six hot-swap Ultra3 hard drives, for a maximum storage capacity of more than 210GB. Although the 6000R inhabits a 7-inch modular chassis, it can accommodate only six internal hard drives. IT managers looking to scale beyond 210GB will need to purchase external storage arrays. The ServeRAID-4H controller allows only a single strip-unit size for the arrays it controls. Companies might find this limitation troublesome. Technician Francis Chu can be reached at francis_chu@ziffdavis.com.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (105580)	7/13/2000 9:03:22 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Notebook Computer Sales are SKYROCKETING - according to Intel. They estimate 28 to 30 million will be sold in this year ! Perfect timing for AMD to take the speed crown away from Intel in yet another market. theregister.co.uk Intel notebook chips to top 1GHz By: Mike Magee Posted: 12/07/2000 at 06:54 GMT ..... the firm is set to intro the new Tualatin .13 micron core in the second quarter of next year for notebook processors, allowing speeds of 1GHz+ for mobile warriors toting StinkPads and the like. The key time for Intel to intro chipsets and products based on the Tualatin core is currently set at Q2 next year, according to the roadmaps. In that period we will see a Pentium III 950MHz mobile component, with 800MHz and 750MHz mobile Celerons arriving early next year AMD notebooks beat Intel to GHz punch By: Mike Magee Posted: 12/07/2000 at 11:12 GMT theregister.co.uk The race is on with a vengeance with both AMD and Intel lining up in a three-horse race to see which is first to hit 1GHz in the notebook market. And, according to confidential AMD roadmaps we have seen today, it is set to be a close run thing, with the firm launching its 1GHz Athlon in Q1 next year. Well fancy that.