Re: [TCLUG:21592] Pentium Pro's

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21592] Pentium Pro's
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:06:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <0G1G009AONIBSS@mail1.supervalu.com>; from Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:38:30PM -0500
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> 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).

Carl Soderstrom
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