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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">A</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">re there any PCI experts or memory controller experts in the working group? As an MPI engineer, I don't know enough about ordering considerations at the lower physical layer to comment intelligently about this topic. As things become more asyncronus, we don't want to be fighting the memory controllers, or the busses on ordering issues.</font><font size="1" face="Arial"><br>
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<font size="1" face="Arial">Regards,</font><br>
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<font size="3" color="#888888" face="Arial"><b>Geoffrey (Geoff) Paulsen</b></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><br>
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