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To: cfimx who wrote (56950)	11/22/2003 3:57:03 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

"A battery of real-world application benchmark tests confirms the dominant performance and price/performance advantage of the SGI Altix systems, which are up to 130% faster-more than double the speed of the closest competing system. SGI Altix 3000 systems deliver leading performance across the board on popular compute intensive applications from HPC areas such as computational chemistry, biosciences and computational fluid dynamics. Conducted on an SGI Altix system running four 1.5 GHz Madison processors, preliminary internal tests show how Altix easily outpaces the industry's closest competitor, IBM® eServerTM pSeriesTM systems running four IBM® POWER4TM processors. Current evidence indicates that these numbers are not expected to vary much when applied to the new POWER4+TM processor. SGI intends to issue final performance results following Madison's first shipment, expected this summer. The results will include those for Altix 3000 configurations that uniquely scale up to 64 processors. " ooops..I wouldn't want to be a RISC chip next year....Itanium serving up a can of whoop ass... sgi.com