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To: George Dawson who wrote (19625)	12/3/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: Technocrat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

> I don't know if class 1 is suggested or not - > what are you seeing? I was reading the slides at the end which suggested that is the direction they are going. Perhaps I am reading between the lines :-) However, the other references you provided virtually confirm it. Not the NT clusters, but the SGI supercomputer clusters. I know these folks from my earlier days in scientific computing. Larry Smarr is not going economy ride. They want bandwidth and scalability whatever the cost. NCSA singing Ancor praises is a major coup. Furthermore I am certain that Brocade tried very hard to get their switches inside these racks. Academic centers and industry have a tendency of cloning these configurations over and over again. I just bought some more stock before the close...

To: George Dawson who wrote (19625)	12/4/1998 7:49:00 PM
From: Craig Stevenson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

George, I was looking at one of the links you provided: ncsa.uiuc.edu Did you note the difference between switch latency on the same ASIC (540ns) versus the switch latency across ASICs (1.7us)? I find this interesting because I remember hearing that Ancor measured latency, "in the same way that Brocade did". I realize that it isn't a big deal, but it might indicate that further ASIC integration could keep latencies low. Craig