Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:01:33 -0500 (CDT) | From | Chris Zwilling <> | Subject | Re: Building Big Ass Linux Machine, what are the limits? |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Neil Conway wrote:
> Not with my codes - don't rely on this assumption. With our > floating-point codes the PII does roughly 10% better per MHz than the > PPro. Also, the PII-Xeon can of course handle lots of CPU's, and the > cost probably won't be an issue for a "Big-Ass" machine :-) > > Neil
I heard that the Xeon can not scale beyond four processors. (http://www.intel.com/archive/speeches/sp062998.htm). Also, they are hailing the Xeon as the first 36 bit address space processor by Intel (what about the 36 address pins on the Pro?). I will admit that the Xeon is spiffy and I wish I had one, but they are not as scalable as the Pro was (http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q11998/articles/art_2.htm).
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