What are the most significant X Architecture technologies in the market?
I think the systems management tools and the software rejuvenation jumps out–the ability to predict a hang and take evasive action…it remains exclusive. Under that same banner is concurrent diagnostics–the ability to take diagnostics without bringing the server down. The second (most significant) would be the way we’ve developed the input-output architecture. You recall PCI to PCI-X to PCI-X 2.0 now. And then of course InfiniBand. The third one is Enterprise X Architecture. EXA is really the quintessential manifestation of companywide cooperation. We had contributions from five groups: our mainframe division, our research laboratories, our acquisition of Sequent, our microelectronics division and our software division. Hyper-threading (which lets a single processor act in some ways like two) is showing up in the Xeon chips from Intel. What type of performance improvements have you seen? Like most performance improvements, it runs the gamut based on application. We are seeing some a
