From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:32:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010710163243.A8818@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010710161943.A7785@caldera.de> <20010711022509.C31966@weta.f00f.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010711022509.C31966@weta.f00f.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:25:09AM +1200
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:25:09AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> What is the limit here? The 8/16 way SE chipsets?
The largest Chipset I know about are the 8 Way ones.
(What is SE?).
> > In anyone from Compaq is reading this, you should send me a 32-way
> > Xeon ASAP just to prove they really work :)
>
> It doesn't.
>
> Oh, then they definately need to send me one.
Heh :)
> Are these not MP1.4 based? Something different?
They must be the Unisys OEM machines. They are based on some
crossbar-architecture called CMP that allows logical partioning, etc..
I have talked to Unisys engineers on last Cebit who said that the NT
(now W2k) port required a huge amount of work.
Also I noticed that UnixWare^H^H^H^H^HOpenUnix needed work to run on it.
Christoph
--
Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-10 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-10 5:17 How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support? Xinwei Xue
2001-07-10 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-10 13:51 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 14:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-10 14:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-10 14:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-07-10 14:36 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 15:26 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-07-10 15:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 15:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-10 16:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-07-10 16:10 ` Jesper Juhl
2001-07-10 14:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 14:43 ` Jesper Juhl
[not found] <85256A85.007E98E0.00@D51MTA03.pok.ibm.com>
2001-07-10 23:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
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