Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > IBM's Sequent servers are NUMA machines, not SMP. (That's > > why they bought Sequent - for the NUMA tech.) > > As I understood it, NUMA is just one SMP architecture (among others,like > ccNUMA, or COMA). it uses a number of identical processors, so shouldn't it > still be called Symmetric Multi-Processing? (as opposed to Asymmetric > Multi-Processing). The big deal with NUMA is that the memory is not located in one big chunk (like on a run of the mill SMP board). Of course, even on a simple SMP system, the memory is still Non-Uniform -- each processor has a local cache. Just my random irrelevant 2¢.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Gates' Law: The speed of / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ software halves every 18 \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) months [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org