Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:57:08 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: How many pentium-3 processors does SMP support? |
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:50:38AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:26:09AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > I have heard of some IBM/Sequent patches that modify the > logical vs. physical APIC addressing scheme to make 16-way > systems work. > > The Unisys machine is actually four quad-CPU machines with shared > memory, dynamically configurable and other neat stuff.
If it is the Unisys design I mean it is done rather different. The design I saw has two central crossbars and attached either CPU modules with a GTL+ bus and two CPUs after a L3 cache or a IO Module with a few (IIRC 3) PCI busses.
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