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To: J Fieb who wrote (440)	3/22/1998 10:19:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4808

"Any chance that FC will come to the rescue for the I/O bottleneck for CPU's- memory access problems? Is this where the smaller trace-width comes in? If anyone has a link on this subject please post." J Fieb, I am not sure if you are referring to actual memory bandwidth or the bandwidth of the main system bus. With regard to memory bandwidth there are a number of specific techniques - the most recent discussed on SI FC threads being the RAMBUS technique. FC will not be useful for the main system bus until it is a lot faster and the latency is even lower. Searching the main high performance server manufacturers and the architecture of their systems will show that they use proprietary systems that are much faster and with latencies in the 10s of ns rather than 100s of ns. Message 3715893 I do think it is possible for FC to push out into the LAN as people get used to it and recognize the advantages. George D.