Re: SMP/cc Cluster description [was Linux/Pro]

Henning Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
06 Dec 2001 10:50:43 +0100

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 22:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > We don't agree on any of these points. Scaling to a 16 way SMP pretty much
> > ruins the source base, even when it is done by very careful people.
>
> I'd say that the normal current limit on SMP machines is 8 way.
> But you're right, we don't agree. Time will tell who was right.
> When I say I'm interested in 16 way scalability, I'm not talking about
> SMP, so perhaps we're talking at slightly cross purposes.

Well I do remember those Sequent Symmetry machines from university which
scaled to 24 processors and more. If I remember correctly they ran 16x
386 and 8x 486 in a single box (under Dynix?)

Wasn't too much interested in that then. I was to busy toying with my
Amiga. ;-)

Regards
Henning

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