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To: Srexley who wrote (8221)	11/4/2000 6:42:52 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

Earlier this week an interesting article was posted about Ibm. Small step for IBM; giant leap for Linux zdii.com IBM Corp. announced Thursday what it called the biggest ever commercial use of Linux, inking a deal to outfit a Japanese convenience chain called Lawson Inc. with more than 15,000 IBM eServers running the alternative operating system. ...... Further reading of the article describe the use of the machines. The article uses the words streaming but the application is a typical web server in the type of data transfers that will take place. Music is very low bandwidth while the video does need some b/w. But, if they are only doing video clips, they will probably just send the data as a file and then play off of local disk. The significance of this deal is it helps validate SGI's direction with Linux. Since IBM does much better (today) in the commercial space, I'm not surprised to see IBM get this deal. Tom Watson tosiwmee I get by with a little help from my friends. All number nine video cards were named after beatle songs.

To: Srexley who wrote (8221)	11/6/2000 9:48:20 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

SGI Highlights Leadership Role, Showcasing Modular Supercomputer Services And Solutions for Technical and Creative Users at SuperComputing 2000 biz.yahoo.com SGI's Momentum in Supercomputing Demonstrated in Multifaceted Presence at Conference DALLAS, Texas, SuperComputing 2000, Booth 550, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - news), known worldwide for providing a broad range of high-performance computing and advanced graphics solutions, will highlight its growth and leadership in supercomputing with a full calendar of announcements and demonstrations at SuperComputing 2000 (SC2000), held Nov. 6-10 in Dallas. Scheduled attractions include presentations by SGI executives and partners, demonstrations of technology developments in varied environments and upgraded product announcements. ...... Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Srexley who wrote (8221)	11/6/2000 9:53:53 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

SGI Demonstrates Itanium Processor-Based System at SC2000 biz.yahoo.com Major ISV and Research Software Demonstrated at SC2000 Utilizing Linux Software for Intel Itanium(TM) Processor DALLAS, SC2000, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - news) demonstrated that it is ahead in the development of the Linux® and applications software environments for products based on Intel® Itanium(TM) processors. Using a cluster of 16 Itanium processors, SGI displayed a prerelease version of SGI(TM) software for Itanium, built on TurboLinux® software, comprising SGI Pro64(TM) compilers, SGI(TM) Advanced Cluster Environment (ACE) and system administration tools. SGI exhibited five major independent software vendor (ISV) codes -- Amber®, Cactus(TM), Fasta(TM), Fluent(TM) and STAR-CD(TM) -- running on pilot Itanium processor-based systems at SC2000. In addition to these commercial software packages, SGI demonstrated three research software application codes from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC): a Quantum® Chromodynamics (QCD) application, a materials research application and a computational fluid dynamics application. ....... Tom Watson tosiwmee