IBM's Sequent servers are NUMA machines, not SMP. (That's why they bought Sequent - for the NUMA tech.) That's why SGI's ccNUMA machines can scale up to 1024 processors. :) Nick chrome at real-time.com, on 09/25/2000 03:38:30 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF cc: Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21592] Pentium Pro's > Whether it'll actually efficiently use 32/64 CPUs is doubtful. > > Even our Sun rep here says that Solaris has a difficulty > scaling beyond 23 CPUs. > > I guess we'll see. we need to convince IBM to Open-Source Dynix (the *nix made for Sequent servers)... see how they solved the SMP scalability problems. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org