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Subject: Re: Forget Itanium 2, Madison is coming

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:18:22 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 14:51:33, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 10, 2002 at 13:46:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 2002 at 11:10:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 10, 2002 at 04:57:20, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>>
>>>>a new episode in the never ending race :
>>>>
>>>>"NEC will show a Madison system with 32 processors"...
>>>>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-956973.html
>>>>
>>>>http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-957096.html
>>>
>>>that's too bad, because McKinley goes till 10000 processors :)
>>
>>
>>In a very tough-to-use NUMA configuration..
>
>If the alternative is a 10000 processor NUMA or a 32 processor
>shared bus shared memory thing, i'll go for the NUMA nowadays :)


you better rewrite like mad.  With 10,000 processors some of that memory is
going to be a lifetime away from a particular cpu...



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