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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (135152)	5/15/2001 4:58:04 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Eric, <This is where Itanium will shine, you can keep a much larger database in memory with Itanium than Xeon based servers. This is where the performance boost will come from, not clock speed.> Bingo. Though I wonder how you would respond to those who bring up the point that Xeon actually has an address width of 36 bits, meaning that Xeon can address up to 64 GB of memory. For example, there are 8-way Profusion-based Xeon platforms out there which can support up to 32 GB of SDRAM. (Of course, such Xeon platforms probably suffer from the 100 MHz FSB(s), and Itanium's 266 MHz bus will definitely help scalability.) Tenchusatsu