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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (49064)	2/28/1998 12:28:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Hi Mohan, Article...Intel server CPUs go eight-way, PCI bus doubles in width and speed.. By Andy Santoni and David Pendery InfoWorld Electric Posted at 5:05 AM PT, Feb 28, 1998 Not content to boost server performance with faster processors alone, Intel is championing a server road map that doubles the number of CPUs in a system while doubling either the speed or the width of the PCI bus -- or both. "We're a quarter or two away" from more-capable servers, said Justin Rattner, Intel fellow and director of the company's Server Architecture Laboratory. Intel foresees server CPUs doubling from four to eight in enterprise applications, while the PCI bus doubles in width to 64 bits and in speed to 66 MHz. "The transition is already well under way" to 64-bit PCI bus peripherals, Rattner said. The move to eight-way Intel servers aims to increase the performance of clustered systems, Rattner said, and brings servers up to the demands of gigabit networking. Tejas Vakil, vice president of server marketing at Dell Computer, said the company is evaluating eight-way architectures, but would not discuss Dell's server plans beyond saying the company will release products by the end of the year. "From a pricing perspective, when an eight-way comes in [Windows] NT, you will see a greater use of four-ways in traditional departmental applications, [such as] mail servers and application servers," Vakil said. "Pricing lends itself to high volume and commoditization," Vakil continued. "Commoditization moved from one-way to two-way systems, driving prices down. The process made four-ways commoditized a little bit more." Compaq's E2000 strategy includes a commitment to symmetric multiprocessing on Intel platforms, said Brad Anderson, director of strategic marketing for server products at Compaq. (See "Compaq touts lofty enterprise systems goals.".) ______________________________________________________________________ Michael