i forget who made it.. i belive intel custom made it for a supercomputer
startup.. i belive it had something to do with one of cray's
partners.. i'll see if I can still get ahold of it.. it's not an item that
moves very fast.. (wanted too much for it)
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > I have also seen >2 processor PPro systems, and I even looked at
> > purchasing a 16 processor Pentium classic 166mhz system, i doubt it's
> > still around, but it was an interesting machine.
>
> what make/model was it?
> would have been an interesting thing to play with. :)
>
> anyone have any idea what a 32-processor Sequent (now IBM NUMA-Q) server costs these days?
>
> Linux 2.4 has a hard limit of 32 processors on 32-bit archs, 64 procs on
> 64-bit architectures. (tho they're going to try to fix that for 2.5)
> something to do with word-sized processor numbers in a couple of places in
> the code.
>
> Carl Soderstrom
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