By William Fellows
Data General Corp will be upgrading its SCI ccNUMA interconnect to a fully-switched systems by year-end enabling it to connect 64 processor in a single node, up from 32 currently. Its DG/UX will continue to be the operating system of choice on its IA-32 systems but DG will likely use the IBM/SCO Monterye64 Unix on IA- 64 systems. That’s if it can get what it wants out of the Monterey64 team, which are guarantees on support for DG’s own clustering and ccNUMA topologies. Until then it’s not going to go public with any notion of support for Monterey64. In any case it will only use Monterey64 on IA-64 systems. DG says it will port its ccNUMA technologies to IA-64 but is targeting the second generation part, McKinley, not Merced. รก
