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To: Dan3 who wrote (48980)	7/25/2001 2:47:01 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "Consider how long ago Intel started .13 production and how many parts have shown up for sale so far. " Well, Dan3 - just how many have shipped? Have you counted them all yourself? Let's say X have shipped. That beats AMD's 0.13 micron shipments by...X - 0 = X !!!

To: Dan3 who wrote (48980)	7/25/2001 4:18:16 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

1 GHz ATHLON CPUs in Beowulf Supercomputer clusters weren't used here - but 1 GHz Pentium ///s were ! biz.yahoo.com Wednesday July 25, 8:31 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Locus Discovery Inc. Locus Discovery Assembles One of the Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World Company Relocates and Moves Into a New State-of-the-Art Facility in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania BLUE BELL, Pa., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Locus Discovery Inc., a new computational drug design biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the Company has moved into a newly designed, state-of-the-art facility located at 512 Township Line Road, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. At this new facility, Locus has assembled what it believes is one of the fastest parallel processor supercomputer clusters in the world, based on data from the TFCC (Top 500 Computer Clusters). The Company is using its supercomputer for proprietary computational drug design work. Locus Discovery Supercomputer Cluster Most current supercomputers are comprised of a large number of smaller processors linked in parallel, a form of distributed computing, rather than previous approaches that often used a single large centralized processor. Locus has assembled a Beowulf supercomputer cluster currently comprised of 1,408 1GHz parallel processors. The majority of the processors are 1U, 1 GHz dual processor, Pentium III units purchased from Western Scientific. The Locus Discovery cluster has a peak performance of approximately 1.41 TeraFlops. A GigaFlop is a standard unit of computer speed and represents 1 billion calculations per second; a TeraFlop is equivalent to 1,000 GigaFlops, that is, 1 trillion calculations per second. At 1.41 TeraFlops, the Locus supercluster is capable of conducting over 1.4 trillion calculations per second, which the Company believes is about 40% faster than the next most powerful publicly known supercluster. Locus Discovery also owns an additional supercluster comprised of 658 1 GHz processors operating in another location. Within the next few weeks the Company will bring these processors to its Blue Bell site, and expand the total supercluster to 2,066 1 GHz processors. This cluster configuration will have a peak performance of 2.06 TeraFlops -- over 2 trillion calculations per second -- or approximately twice that of the next most powerful supercluster currently listed on the TFCC database. Superclusters are monitored by the TFCC, an international forum that promotes cluster computing research and education. It participates in helping to set up and promote technical standards in this area and to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. To achieve this, the TFCC twice a year assembles a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems. The TFCC presents a list of computer clusters on their website, clusters.top500.org. ``As impressive as our computer is, the key to our capabilities are the novel and proprietary mathematical constructs and computational algorithms which run on the supercluster. We are committed to developing the best possible tools to progress our novel work in finding new drugs for a variety of serious medical disorders. We are proud of the hard work and achievements of our team in building this supercomputer cluster. This powerful computer is instrumental to our groundbreaking work in computational drug design, with which we hope to achieve in weeks what currently takes many years of painstaking laboratory research,'' commented Nicholas Landekic, President and Chief Executive Officer of Locus Discovery. Move to New Facility Locus Discovery, growing at a rapid rate, expects to have approximately 50 employees by the end of this year and about 80 by the end of 2002. Within the next few years, Locus plans to employ well over a hundred people at its new facility, including chemists, biologists, computer scientists, and business professionals. The new 50,000 square foot facility can accommodate the projected employee growth and future requirements for additional laboratory and supercomputer space. Locus Discovery's computational technology is a proprietary means of first rapidly and accurately identifying the biologically relevant active binding site of a protein, and then designing small molecule antagonists or agonists of the protein's activity. The technology utilizes proprietary computational procedures and requires knowledge only of the structure of a protein. Unlike traditional research approaches, the Locus Discovery process represents the ability to compress into a few weeks what previously took several years in the drug discovery process, enabling the identification of small molecule drugs substantially faster, with a much higher success rate, and on a much larger scale than has previously been possible. ``The new facility not only allows for continued long-term growth but significant expansion of our drug discovery efforts. We expect to have 20 drug discovery programs underway by year's end, which would represent unprecedented productivity and efficiency in the biopharmaceutical industry,'' commented Nicholas Landekic. Locus Discovery is a new computational drug design biopharmaceutical company. The Company was organized in September 1999, and is based on technology exclusively licensed from the Sarnoff Corporation. The Locus Discovery process can be used to discover therapeutic compounds for many thousands of known protein targets, as well as thousands of new protein targets being identified through genomic research. Some of Locus Discovery's drug discovery programs include small molecule mimetics of erythropoetin, anti-viral compounds based on a novel target called GP41, and other programs in cancer, infectious diseases, and neurological and other disorders. New address for Locus Discovery: Locus Discovery, Inc. 512 Township Line Rd. Four Valley Square Blue Bell, PA 19422 (215) 358-2000 locusdiscovery.com This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause Locus Discovery's actual results and experience to differ materially from the anticipated results and expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from these statements. Among other things, there can be no assurances that any of Locus Discovery's research programs and compounds will successfully complete all the pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing and other steps necessary to develop and commercialize them into safe and effective new drugs. SOURCE: Locus Discovery Inc. Email this

To: Dan3 who wrote (48980)	7/25/2001 8:20:02 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: "Consider how long ago Intel started .13 production and how many parts have shown up for sale so far. " Read on - oh wise one !! Intel set to launch new mobile processors By John G. Spooner and Richard Shim Special to CNET News.com July 25, 2001, 12:30 p.m. PT news.cnet.com One of the worst-kept secrets in the tech world will be unveiled Monday, when Intel launches its new Pentium III-M mobile processors. Intel will host an event on Monday introducing five new Pentium III-M chips, CNET News.com has learned. Many of the major PC manufacturers also are expected to be on hand to announce support for the new chips in updated notebook PCs. Top-level Intel executives, including Intel Executive Vice President Paul Otellini, will discuss the strategy for the Pentium III-M and touch on Intel's other Pentium III processors built on the 0.13-micron manufacturing process, including server and desktop PC chips. The 0.13-micron process allows for smaller circuits to be printed on chips, increasing processing power and energy efficiency. Collectively, these 0.13-micron Pentium III semiconductors are referred to by the company as the "Tualatin" chips. Intel will focus on selling the chips in the mobile market, with the Pentium 4 aimed at the desktop segment. Analysts believe the price and performance of the new chips will help continue the reduction of the gap between notebooks and desktops. "I think that as you shrink lines (from the current 0.18-micron process to the 0.13-micron process), it allows you to get closer and closer to the performance of a desktop," IDC analyst Roger Kay said. The new Pentium III chips will also come with 512KB of Level 2 cache, high-speed memory that shuttles data to and from the processor. The added cache will provide notebooks with an additional performance boost over previous generations. At the same time, falling system-memory prices have led many of the PC makers to include up to twice as much memory in their new notebooks. Though the new notebooks pack greater features, their prices are expected to be on a par with previous models, giving buyers more performance for the dollar. PC makers including Compaq Computer, Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sony are expected to tout Pentium III-M notebooks at the Intel launch event. Intel is expected to announce five new Pentium III-M clock speeds, including 866MHz, 933MHz, 1GHz, 1.06GHz and 1.13GHz, along with a new mobile chipset. The new components will increase the performance of notebook PCs while lowering power consumption, giving notebook buyers more bang for the buck. In addition, the new Intel chips will offer "Enhanced SpeedStep," a version of the company's power-management technology that allows the chip to reduce clock speed and voltage automatically while on battery power. The goal of the feature is to allow a notebook to pump up clock speed when needed by an application. Previous mobile Pentium III chips switched between two fixed clock speed and voltage settings, with the lower speed used while running on battery power. Also on Monday, Intel will announce its new mobile chipset with integrated graphics, dubbed the Intel 830. The chipset, known by the code name Almador, was designed to work with all sizes of notebooks, eliminating the need for three other Intel chipsets, including the 440BX, the 440MX and the 815. By standardizing on the 830, PC makers will be able to build several different notebooks with the same basic design, saving on research and development. For now, most notebook makers are expected to carry on with their current designs, gradually adopting the new chipset later in the year. The 830's one kicker, sources say, may be that it has only a 133MHz front-side bus--the data pipeline between the processor and the main memory. Intel and PC makers see this move as bringing more performance to the mainstream notebook market, as increases in bus speed usually net a few percentage points in performance. But current mobile chipsets support both 100MHz and 133MHz. Offering only the faster speed limits the number of Celeron chips available to it, as Intel has yet to increase the bus on mobile Celeron chips to 133MHz. The company, however, plans to move to a 133MHz bus with an 866MHz mobile Celeron due later in the quarter, sources familiar with the company's plans said. Most new Pentium III-M notebooks are expected to cost less than $2,500. IBM will brandish new T-series ThinkPad notebooks. The new models will include new integrated wireless 802.11 and Bluetooth as well as additional security features, sources familiar with its plans said. Dell will launch a new Inspiron 8000 series notebook priced around $1,700 and a new Latitude 800 series notebook priced around $2,500. The company is expected to announce a second Inspiron with Pentium III-M and the new 830 chipset later in the year, sources said. Meanwhile, HP will equip an Omnibook 6100 series notebook with the 1.13GHz Pentium III-M chip and either 128MB or 256MB of RAM as well as 16MB of video memory and two USB ports, sources said. Sony will launch two new Vaio notebooks. Its PCG-GR150K will sport a 14.1-inch display along with an 866MHz Pentium III-M processor, 128MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive. Its PCG-GR170K upgrades to a 1.13GHz Pentium III-M, 256MB of RAM and a 14.1-inch SXGA+ display. Sony also will announce a new strategy to market Vaio notebooks, always good sellers in retail, to business customers. Compaq is also expected to offer all five Pentium III-M speeds in its Presario 1700 series of notebooks, at prices ranging from about $1,550 to $1,850. The company also will announce an Evo thin-and-light notebook with the new chips, sources said. The new Evo will join Compaq's Evo N200 mini-notebook displayed at PC Expo this year. The Evo N200 is expected in September and will use a low-power version of the Pentium III-M chip due out later in the year. Gateway will show off two new high-end notebooks, additions to its existing Solo 9500 series of notebooks. The company plans to ship them at a later date. Although the Monday announcement marks the official Pentium III-M launch, Intel has been shipping Pentium III chips manufactured on the 0.13-micron process for several weeks.