Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC [Re: SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs] | Date | 3 Dec 1998 21:07:46 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981201011004.12147M-100000@waste.org> By author: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > As for the current discussion, no massively parallel machines are SMP. > Most are much more like computing clusters, using fancy bus architectures > to communicate between nodes with their own local memory. > > I'm surprised there's been little in the way of 2-way SMP clusters. I > would guess this would be slightly more cost effective than 2x nodes. >
Remember most supercomputer problems are *very* memory-intensive. You don't want to add any contention for memory.
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