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To: Paul Engel who wrote (64138)	9/9/1998 5:47:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, this sounds even nicer .. Intel and Server Industry Leaders Demonstrate High-performance Clustering, VI Architecture Solutions BusinessWire, Tuesday, September 08, 1998 at 14:13 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1998-- First 16-node SHV Server Cluster Demo to Showcase Scalability of Pentium(R) II Xeon(TM) Processor and VI Architecture Intel Corporation and server industry leaders today demonstrated at Comdex Enterprise, breakthrough enterprise class performance and scalability with the world's first 16-node Pentium(R) II Xeon(tm) processor-based server cluster using Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture components. VI Architecture, with support from over 130 industry leaders, establishes standard interfaces for the hardware and software used to communicate within a cluster of servers or workstations. Using standard high-volume (SHV) servers as building blocks and core enterprise solutions from CLARiiON, Dell, GigaNet, IBM, QLogic and Visual Insights, the demonstration shows that VI Architecture is available now, and that standard high-volume servers are capable of taking on highest level enterprise computing demands such as data warehousing that only a few years ago required a dedicated mainframe. Today's demonstration showcases a real-world decision support environment. The 16-node cluster stores a two billion record data warehouse that models demographic data. This huge data warehouse is able to slice through massive amounts of data, many times a day. Quick turnaround on such queries is essential to meeting the demands of a large business. Hours-long queries can now be handled in seconds and as more users are served, more insight is gained enabling better decision making that can directly affect the bottom line. "Cost-effective, high-performance clustering is real and ready to deploy," said John Miner, corporate vice president and general manager, Enterprise Server Group, Intel Corporation. "VI Architecture enabled solutions like those based on the Intel Pentium II Xeon processor and the others seen today, offer the scalability, availability and manageability needed for optimal business computing." The capabilities of the recently announced Pentium II Xeon processor family and the flexibility of the SHV server model enable a new class of scalable cluster products offering high performance, low total cost of ownership and broad applicability. The demo will also be seen next week at the Intel Developers Forum in Palm Springs, Calif., where a VI Architecture showcase will highlight the numerous VI solutions being made available by the participating companies. VI Architecture Specification Intel and industry leaders concluded several years ago that the real barrier to powerful, scalable and available clustering lay not in the speed of the individual servers, or nodes, but in the speed of the interconnection between those nodes. As a result, the VI Architecture specification was written and submitted for industry review in April, 1997. Over 130 companies contributed to the definition of the specification. Demonstrations of 4- and 6-node clusters were presented on a variety of hardware and software solutions in early 1998. Today's announcement unveils the first 16-node cluster of SHV servers based on the Intel Pentium II Xeon processor. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. Other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Intel Mary Frances Baldes, 503/264-6276 mary.frances.c.baldes@intel.com or Angela Windheim, 503/264-7549 angela.windheim@intel.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA OREGON INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT TRADESHOW Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com Copyright 1998, Business Wire

To: Paul Engel who wrote (64138)	9/9/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, I wouldn't get too excited about these 8-Way XEON servers. Rememebr, Kurlak said there would be a "ceiling" to how much revenue Intel can receive from their server lines in the future, since Intel chips could never penetrate the IBM/SUN/DEC enterprise market. <ggg> This will be Kurlak's biggest miscalculation, imo. joey

To: Paul Engel who wrote (64138)	9/9/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: John Hull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, I walked by this system yesterday at Comdex-Enterprise in S.F. Impressive system. Just the first of many 8-way Pentium II Xeon processor based servers you'll see released this fall. Go ask your favorite intel-based server vendor for their release schedule...they all have one. regards, jh