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To: Judy who wrote (52077)	4/4/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Julius Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Judy, see Dr. Tom's page for hardware and Deschutes at tomshardware.com Julius

To: Judy who wrote (52077)	4/7/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Judy, >>"Tony, can you tell me more about the Deutches chip, what market share INTC hopes to capture with it..."<< I never answered this one, but will try to get to at least the first part. Deschutes is the replacement for the Pentium pro, and is intended to be used in mid-range servers. It runs at 400 MHz out of the chute (no pun intended), vs. 200 MHz max for the Pentium Pro. It will get to 450 MHz and who knows how much faster. It is designed to be able to be used in Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) mode, with at least eight processors being able to be connected that way. Pentium Pro is SMPable up to four way. Intel and others have designed what is called a node for Deschutes, as they did for PPro. What it consists of is a motherboard (now being called a baseboard, or system board for PC. i.e., politically correct), with capability to hold one or two daughtercards. Each daughtercard can have up to four Deschutes chips on it, L1 cache on each chip, L2 also, maybe on chip, maybe not. Also in the node are memory, select a size from 128 MB to 4 GB, six 32 bit PCI slots, chipset (440BX?), two to four hot pluggable hard drives, select between 4.3 GB, 9 GB and 18 GB. Continuing, it has N+1 redundant power and cooling, SCSI, Fibre, ethernet, FDDI and all the current I/O interface protocols. All the above is in an industry standard 19 inch rack (actually 17.3 inch to accommodate slides and brackets). Why all the detail? All a server vendor, like Compaq, need do is buy these nodes from Intel (or some other companies), design or buy a suitable cabinet and plug them in, add cables, test and ship. The tallest cabinets anyone should deal with if they plan on shipping a lot of these servers in regular (non jumbo-jet) airplanes, is about 6 feet. In a 6 foot cabinet, a server company should be able to plug in 5 nodes. So, that's up to 40 Deschutes in one box about the size of your frij. Actually, the biggest configs I've seen are about 24 processors, and the rest of the space is used for more RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) DASD (direct access storage device). Mass production? From the server companies about mid August, but first customer shipments about the Fourth of July. From Intel, back up about 6 weeks or so. Performance? I can't speak about chip level, but at the server level, you'll be able to get twice as many processors in a box as with PPro, and clock frequency is double. These servers should, therefore, get to up to four times as many MIPS as with PPro. Never quite get there because of overhead, but, you get the idea. Compared to a mainframe? Not quite, but getting there. Gotta run. Tony