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To: Alan Aronoff who wrote (14366)	2/16/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Alan, Cray may not OEM any FC switches, but their I/O architecture supports it: sgi.com HIPPI 6400 seems to have the political backing of LLNL and several other facilities that use supercomputers. I have posted links to proposed systems with switched HIPPI LANS sending data out over WDM systems. Steve, what is your take on all this? Interestingly, it may be possible to send data as fast over FC as HIPPI. HIPPI switches are currently available from Gigalabs. According to CERN-switches and hubs will not be available until later this year from other manufacturers: cern.ch George D.

To: Alan Aronoff who wrote (14366)	2/17/1998 3:56:00 AM
From: Pigboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

Hey Alan, SGI is OEMing a FC switch from someone per a convo I had with someone there...as I have posted. :-) When or who with, I have zero clue. Last I checked SGI and Cray were like this...@. In addition, if CPQ/DEC, SUNW, Data General, SQNT, HWP, SEG, QNTM, WDC, EMC, IBM, EDS, etc... are going to be doing a lot more with FC in the coming year, a lot more than any kind of HIPPI, I wouldn't worry too much. As my father has said, the hippi thing was already done before in the 60's. :-) Now, Fibre Channel...thats a new fad, I hear. :-) i may be wrong. more later... all imho pigboy p.s. No offense to the Hippi folk...I am just joking. It looks as if Hippi will be very important for many networking functions in the near future.