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To: Don Green who wrote (10681)	1/9/2003 2:39:12 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Silicon Graphics Debuts Linux Servers Jan. 7, 2003 New models offer global shared memory across cluster nodes. By Larry Greenemeier Silicon Graphics Inc. threw its hat into the Linux arena Tuesday with the introduction of its own distribution of the open-source operating system, management software, and a new line of servers powered by Intel Itanium 2 processors. What makes SGI's Linux Altix 3300 and Altix 3700 servers different from scalable Linux clusters from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and others is SGI's ability to provide global shared memory across cluster nodes. informationweek.com I'd say Krazit is out lunch. Adding com outages and the need to move a gazzillion bytes of data all the time is a dumb business plan done of com links. And SGI is selling performance at 1/2 the cost of IBM. Cost of owner ship for big jobs and big science is not in remote hosting. Com links are just getting to the point where visualization of the thousands fold data reduction can be presented remotely in real time.