Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Bob....how strong Crafty on Blue Pacific (@3.9 trillion p/s)?

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 12:19:38 10/30/98

Go up one level in this thread


On October 30, 1998 at 15:05:04, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>I thought you could only have a maximum 8 xeon processors in a given system( at
>least according to all that I have read about Xeon so far).You however mention >a 32 Xeon Processor machine in your post.

You can only have 8 Xeons share a single bus. If you want to build a larger
Xeon machine you must add special logic to mediate between the distinct
busses that serve up to 8 Xeons each. This is exactly what Sequent and
other vendors do in order to build machines with more than 8 Xeons in them.

=Ernst=



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.