Re: [TCLUG:19672] VALinux vs Compaq, and OT: statistical inference

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

Actually, AMD uses the same setup, also (DECs Alpha bus),
so when multi-proc Athlon systems become available, you
should see the same performance.

Nick





mend0070@tc.umn.edu, on 07/19/2000 10:37:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19672] VALinux vs Compaq, and OT: statistical inference

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Scott Dier wrote:

> * Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net> [000719 08:08]:
> > intel's off the shelf stuff.  they use something called "crossbar
> > switch" which allows DRAM requests to be interlaced to multiple dimm's at
> > a time.. which is really cool.
> 
> Read: Neat name for something that many high-end hardware machines do.
> SEE: Many high-end non-x86 sgi machines for instance.

Not entirely.  The crossbar switch was something developed by DEC, and
I'm pretty sure that Compaq just inherited it in the purchase.  But I
don't doubt that the same performance is achieved elsewhere, whether by
the same means or not.

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