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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (10637)	11/14/2002 4:30:13 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Cray sets supercomputer standard By Rex Crum, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 12:29 PM ET Nov. 14, 2002 SEATTLE (CBS.MW) -- The fight for the title the world's fastest supercomputer entered a new phase Thursday with the latest product development from Cray. The company unveiled its new X1 supercomputer, boasting a processing speed of more than 52 trillion calculations, or teraflops, per second. If the X1 name sounds like one of the early supersonic jets instead of a refrigerator-sized box of processors performing unseen calculations, there's a reason. Cray (CRAY: news, chart, profile) wants to leave no doubt among competitors such as Silicon Graphics (SGI: news, chart, profile), IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile) and Japan's NEC that it has the technology to be the kingpin of the highly complex world of supercomputing. "Our product roadmap is focused on this commitment," said Jim Rottsolk, Cray's CEO, who also cited the Seattle-based company's work in building a 40-teraflop supercomputer for the Sandia National Laboratories as an example of its standing in the supercomputing marketplace. Supercomputers are often used by governmental agencies and big corporations to handle large-scale simulations and test products. Until the X1 came along, NEC had the fastest system in the business, doing up to 36 teraflops of processing. Rottsolk said the X1 will come with an initial $2.5 million price tag, but most of the machines will cost between $5 million and $40 million. The company expects to begin shipping the X1 by the end of the year. Shares of Cray rose 12 cents to $7.06 in light trading. Rex Crum is a reporter for CBS.MarketWatch.com in San Francisco.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (10637)	11/16/2002 12:35:40 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Linux server shipments to double next year By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 15/11/2002 at 21:04 GMT Linux will provide the brightest hope for server manufacturers in the next year, according to Gartner-Dataquest's crystal ball. The analyst firm reckons that although the server market will only grow by 1 percent, Linux shipments will double to almost $4 billion, or 9 per cent of the market. The OS will expand into telecomms, and further into web applications. Gartner-Dataquest also reckons that x86-based servers will pip RISC in revenue terms for the first time. Analyst Jeffrey Hewitt predicts the RISC business will be worth $18.1 billion while Intel servers will top $20 billion. Naturally Intel is cock-a-hoop at the prediction. But there's little good news for Itanium, which will fail to make a significant market impact, and Intel doesn't have an evolutionary route to 64bits for its vast x86 user base. Yamhill is dead, and Microsoft killed it, according to the most recent rumors. ® theregister.co.uk