From: "Joe Barr" 


MS wants desperately to get into the Linux game.




On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:27:59 +0000, Adam Flinton wrote:

> http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030107S0010
>
> & others.
>
> It's about the SGI big boxes (Altix) which SGI are bring out which only
> run Linux. I am really quite surprised as I thought we'd be looking at
> 2005-2006 for this sort of announcement.
>
> " SGI is aiming the Altix servers at companies in the physical and life
> sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, and government and defense markets.
> Each node in the cluster runs a single Linux operating-system image with
> up to 64 Itanium 2 processors and 512 Gbytes of memory. SGI uses its
> NUMAlink system interconnect fabric to provide memory and communication
> between cluster nodes. An entry-level Altix 3300 server, available by the
> end of the first quarter, will be priced at $70,176 with four processors
> but scales up to 12 processors. The Altix 3700, also available by the end
> of the quarter, will scale to hundreds of processors and more than 1
> terabyte of memory. A 64-processor system will start at $1.2 million."
>
>
> Ouch...Cheaper....run on lower end hardware....run on higher end
> hardware....run on more CPU types......
>
> I'll bet that the server guys in Redmond are starting to get quite
> seriously worried.....I wonder how fast they could port the .Net server
> components to Linux?
>
> Adam

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