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To: pgerassi who wrote (66110)	12/22/2001 8:07:52 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Pete: Clusters do not need to be hot swappable. The node simply deactivates that contains the failed CPU You certainly have a point there&#133 And I hadn't thought of the memory limitations on Xeon systems that will be alleviated by Hammer systems ;-) Regardless, Hammer won't be able to compete with Itanium in many of IA-64's core markets. These will be places where RAS features do mean a whole lot - market segments dominated by the likes of Sun and IBM. That said, you do have a point ;-). Clusters are encroaching on many of the traditional "big iron" market segments. Using standard components, you can get awesome computing power at a fraction of the cost. -fyo