Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 14:56:19 03/04/00
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On March 03, 2000 at 22:32:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: [big snip] > >None of the intel machines beyond 8-way have been SMP machines (to the best >of my knowledge). Machines like the touchstone, et al, were all clusters of >single-cpu machines using a message-passing interface. Not shared memory. > >I had thought that Ncube (another message-passing machine) used chips with 4 >processors to build boards with 16 processors that they could plug into their >message-passing backplane for large numbers of processors... > >But in any case, there are very few SMP machines with > 8 processors. Dec and >Sun and SGI are the primary actors in this arena so far, and N is small (<= 32 >so far). Sun released a 64 processors SMP machine over a year ago. Of course, it is taller and heavier than me, requires a room to be conditioned for it, its cost is seven figures (in dollars), and consumes a huge amount of power.
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