Re: [TCLUG:21592] Pentium Pro's

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

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@real-time.com, on 09/25/2000 03:38:30 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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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
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
(952) 943-8700

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