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From: jgreen@alliant.alliant.com (John C Green Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Be Prepared...
Keywords: Lots Of Memory
Message-ID: <4517@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 91 05:00:15 GMT
Sender: jgreen@Alliant.COM
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mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) states:

> We do claim that:
>    a) More than one company that builds micro-based servers will obviously
>       offer 4 GB of real memory within just a few years.

I agree. Today, 4 days, not years, later Alliant announced a 4 GB real memory
Intel i860 micro-based `air cooled supercomputer' (crayette, affordable
supercomputer, minisupercomputer) server for scientific applications.

Obviously we won't have the market to ourselves for `just a few years.' Just a
few months is more likely.

The details:
    Main memory:                 256 MB cards. 16 card systems.     4 GB total
    Global Cache:                  2 MB cards.  8 card systems.    16 MB total
    Local Cache per processor:   256 KB/CPU.   14 CPU systems.    3.5 MB total
    On Chip Cache per processor: 4/8 KB I/D.   14 CPU systems. 56/112 KB total

Alliant now offers two memory cards:        64 MB and 256 MB
Alliant now offers two global cache cards: 512 KB and   2 MB
Alliant now offers two CPU cards:          4 * i860 & no Local Cache and
					   2 * i860 & 2 * 256 KB Local Cache

All 8 combinations of memory/global cache/CPU cards are legal configurations.


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