Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:36:54 +0000 | | From | Neil Conway <> | | Subject | Re: Building Big Ass Linux Machine, what are the limits? |
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Chris Zwilling wrote: > > I heard that the Xeon can not scale beyond four processors. > (http://www.intel.com/archive/speeches/sp062998.htm).
Hmm, I heard that limit was short-term and due to chipset trouble, but that 8/16-way would be forthcoming. Also, that link you mention above is no longer working - Intel covering their tracks ? :-))
Neil (PS: never mind 36-bit, just being able to use 2-4GB of phys. mem. beats a lot of PPro boards and certainly most PII boards so that's one (for me anyway) good reason to buy Xeon... In fact, I just wish they had made PII systems with more RAM and more CPU's cos the Xeon doesn't improve on the PII very much in any tests I've ever seen and is generally slower than a PII-450 in fact. Roll on Linux/4GB :-O )
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