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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support?
Date: 9 Jul 2001 22:34:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ie450$d1p$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107092315140.493-100000@faith.cs.utah.edu>

Followup to:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107092315140.493-100000@faith.cs.utah.edu>
By author:    Xinwei Xue <xwxue@cs.utah.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> My research group is planning to buy a multi-processor linux machine
> for parallel computing. Does anyone know how many pentium processors the
> linux SMP support? Does it support 8(pentium-three) processors? What
> companies produce such reliable multi-processor (>4) machines? Thanks a
> lot! 
> 

It supports up to 32, if you can find a machine that has that many.

	-hpa
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-10  5:34 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 [this message]
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
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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