Attempting to garner the maximum impact for its OEM wins in the hot technology area of Non-Uniform Memory Access, Data General Corp yesterday announced a third partner in as many weeks for its PentiumPro-based Aviion server technology which is being peddled by a NUMALiine business unit. Daewoo Telecom Ltd, a unit of the $55bn Daewoo Group, will resell Aviions in South Korea targeting government markets, in South East Asia and in Eastern Europe, as well as using them internally. Data General claims Daewoo will blow its existing arrangement to sell IBM Corp RS/6000s in South Korea out of the water as a result. More interesting is Data General’s expectation that Daewoo will use future Aviions – 32- way NUMA machines due three months after the 16-ways and 64 processor systems expected by the end of next year – to create massively parallel processing (MPP) solutions to compete against the consortium of South Korean companies that are to sell MPP solutions based upon NCR Corp’s WorldMark servers in all markets except the US, Western Europe, Japan and Australia (CI No 2,925). Data General says it’ll work with Daewoo on future operating system and NUMA technology development for the Korean market. Daewoo will begin selling Data General’s non-NUMA Pentium-based Aviions that are already shipping, pick up the PentiumPro quads that will be unveiled in a couple of weeks and step up to the 16- way NUMA-based Aviions when they roll-out towards year-end. Daewoo will also resell Data General’s Clariion RAID disk subsystems.
