Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:32:43 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support? |
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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
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