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To: Neil S who wrote (215)	12/8/1997 9:24:00 AM
From: Nine_USA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Gadzoox Networks, Inc., supplier of Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) infrastructure solutions for building storage area networks, today announced that Alistair Black, the company's CTO and co-founder, will be speaking on a panel at Gignet. The panel will be discussing proposed solutions for retrieving data from storage at high speeds. WHO: Alistair Black, CTO of Gadzoox Networks TOPIC: Session on Storage and Directly Attached Peripherals WHEN: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 3:45 - 5:15 p.m. WHERE: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif. Gadzoox Networks, Inc. is an industry leader in Gigabit-speed Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop products for the open storage area networking (SAN) market. The company provides a complete line of SAN connectivity products, including hubs, switches and gateways. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Gadzoox is privately held and markets products to system integrators, VARs and OEMs. For more information, visit the company's web site at gadzoox.com or call 888/432-3222.

To: Neil S who wrote (215)	12/8/1997 9:38:00 AM
From: Craig Stevenson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Neil or Douglas or anybody, <<The 32-processor Origin2000 server delivered a sustained raw I/O bandwidth performance of 7.32 gigabytes per second across 88 fibre channel loops with a total of 897 fibre channel disks.>> <<The IRIX 6.4 operating system with the 64-bit XFS file system is the only file system available that provides a Guaranteed Rate I/O (GRIO) feature, allowing applications to reserve specific bandwidth to or from the filesystem. This functionality is critical for media delivery systems such as video-on-demand or data acquisition.>> Any idea what they are hooking 88 Fibre Channel loops to? A bunch of cascaded Fibre Channel switches, perhaps? The GRIO feature sounds like Class 1. Maybe SGI has found a way to do this in software, or maybe they are actually using Class 1 the way Sequent should have. Craig