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To: JC Jaros who wrote (49907)	9/25/2000 8:08:57 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Do you know of an Intel server running 12 processors? -- 10? -- 8? --- Unisys ES7000. 32 CPUs. 64GB RAM. Partitioning. Etc. unisys.com Numerous other vendors are offering similar systems with Datacenter Server - see microsoft.com. - Eric

To: JC Jaros who wrote (49907)	9/25/2000 8:17:32 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Project Cascade" Another "innovation" Sun had to pay for. Think Sun will finally get that six year clustering effort out, or will they pay someone to innovate that for them too?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (49907)	9/25/2000 8:37:59 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

JC - re: 12 way - I believe that HP, CPQ and Unisys will all be showing 32 way systems with the new datacenter Win2K - at least, that's what a TechWeb article said last night. The Unisys product has been announced for a while. The claim that Sun's new box will run a thousand processors is just silly - I refer you to my post on that topic on the SUNW thread. Just because there is an architectural possibility to address that many doesn't mean that all of the other system components are there - CPQ's wildfire architecture can accommodate 4096 processors, but I'm not expecting a product announcement for a box of that size any time soon. If Sun gets to 128P with any kind of scalability, that will be impressive. And remember that with current technology, a 64 way E10000 is roughly equivalent to a 24 way IBM S80 - where will a 32 way XEON box hit? And when will Sun have those new architecture big boxes? Current opinion leans towards summer of 2001. Maybe by that time Sun will need 1000 processors to match raw performance of Intel based products.