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SubjectRe: Building Big Ass Linux Machine, what are the limits?
Hi,

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:01:33 -0500 (CDT), Chris Zwilling
<chris@cloudnet.com> said:

> I heard that the Xeon can not scale beyond four processors.

The Xeon has built-in logic to handle 4-way SMP. There's nothing to
stop you from implementing separate, off-CPU cache coherency logic for
larger numbers of CPUs. For example, Sequent have for some time made
a living from selling large SMP x86 systems, and I've used Sequent 386
and 486 arrays despite the fact that those CPUs have no built-in SMP
support at all.

--Stephen

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