Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Help in DSM design | From | Jason L Tibbitts III <> | Date | 06 Mar 2000 13:23:13 -0600 |
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>>>>> "SCT" == Stephen C Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> writes:
SCT> That turns out not to be the case. It was exactly this granularity SCT> problem which killed the only machine I'm aware of which did DSM in SCT> hardware (the Kendall Square boxes --- and how many people here have SCT> heard of that one? :)
I finally threw all of mine out, although I did keep a few processor boards and had them mounted in nice wall displays. ^_^ The core KSR idea (managing DSM by extending the methods used to manage L1 and L2 processor cache) was technically very interesting but ultimately doomed by many factors, many unrelated to technical issues. Who knows what would have happened to them if their processors hadn't been dog slow, their hardware hadn't been so fragile and their accounting processes hadn't spooked all of the shareholders.
Sun eventually bought the underlying patent. I wonder if they've done anything useful with it.
- J<
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