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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (11514)	10/28/2003 1:16:56 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Respond to of 14451

SGI gets truckulent about HP on Itanium 2 roadshow Disses HP Superdrone By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 28 October 2003, 11:35 I'VE WRITTEN to you on SGI before, and I am doing it again. I guess I like their technology. I got an opportunity recently to see their new fancy truck with a whole bunch of equipment and demos. They have a trailer equipped with their new machines, and it is really cool inside, got plasma screens, big servers, CXFS storage systems. It is a new truck, and they seem to try to take a full advantage of it. Here is the schedule. Now the storage systems while being very convenient seem a tad boring to me, so I do not want to talk about those. In the presentation they explained that Altrix line with Itanium processors is the future, and the future is now ... They claim to have sold around 300 Altrices, with 5000 Itaniums total. They also have grand plans for the low power Itanium chips, and promise high density machines with those. MIPS line (R1xK) is gonna die slow but honorable death, with traditional systems as well as armored units being produced for few more years to be placed in rough environments, such as submarines. I did not know they used SGI machines there ... They will also sell you Origins with MIPS, but somewhat relactantly. There were benchmarks shown that implied how SGI Itanium2 systems were much better than HP Superdoms with Itaniums 2, as well as other competing architectures. The shared memory design that SGI got from Cray called "Cray Link" is indeed next to none, so it is no surprise that under heavy shared memory loads Altrix does so well. They also showed how Altrix trashed IBM's Power4 systems such as Regatta e690, but I am not sure that I fully buy that. IBM's stuff they used for comparison is not cutting edge now, so IBM may have something new in the pipeline. SGI people even mentioned that some company was planning to support Windows on Altrix, but then they immediately tried to distance themselves from such developments as far as possible. They claimed to want nothing to do with such a thing that they referred to as a "beast". SGI also has gotten an agreement with SuSE such as 64-bit Itanium SuSE linux works with Altrix without any changes out of the box. A RedHat agreement seems to be in the works. So the software side is quite well covered. Now, once the presentation was over, one of the account managers cheerfully suggested to go to the end of the truck and sign up for orders. And, the interesting part is that the systems presented were so good that one would want to sign up for such orders. So, overall, it seems like the Itanium thing works out really well for SGI, and they may have something going here. The systems are performing well, the customers are rolling in, are the good times just around the corner, hopefully. Yours sincerely A Truck Driver theinquirer.net ..."Altrix/Altrices"..."Itanium thing" ??? LOL! Sounds like SGI got this guy from NASCAR....

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (11514)	11/14/2003 2:15:05 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Intel's Montecito chip to run multiple applications Friday November 14, 12:00 am ET SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) said on Thursday that its Itanium 2 microprocessor due in 2005 and code-named "Montecito" will have four times more storage capacity than its predecessor and will be able to run several applications at once. Existing Itanium chips have 6 megabytes cache and are not capable of multi-threading, in which multiple applications can be run simultaneously with no degradation to performance. The company has already said the chip will have two processors on a single piece of silicon, known as "dual core" and have 24 megabytes of cache. The Itanium chips crunch 64 bits of data at a time compared with the 32 bits at a time processed by Intel's Pentium and Xeon servers. Intel's Itanium 2 processors, used on high-end servers, are being widely adopted by corporations, in addition to the traditional high-performance computing market typically represented by universities and research labs, said Lisa Graff, director of Itanium 2 worldwide ramp. There are about 1,000 software applications optimized to run on Itanium 2, she said. Intel is competing with Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - News) for the lucrative high-end corporate server market, which represents about 80 percent of the total, Graff said. biz.yahoo.com