Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:38:43 -0800 (PST) | From | Erik Walthinsen <> | Subject | Re: SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs |
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On 1 Dec 1998, Craig I. Hagan wrote:
> better find out how many cpu's still work. Several years ago i used an > 8cpu one with mach and a 24 with dynix (ewww). they both rapidly ran out > of viable processor boards -- and this was several years ago. I could > see if these suckers are still @ umass and if they still boot :) We had a large collection of hardware in high school a few years ago, and I don't think we every had a board failure. Disk failure sure (300MB SCSI's) but no boards.
> you forgot to mention that was the cpu cabinet. you still need to > pile-o-fujutsu eagle drives. i think that the FSF is looking for a few > pack-mules to cart some away from their offices ;) Yeah, gotta love the 120 lbs. drive trays. My friend put one on *top* of an S81 cabinet by himself once, I stuck to just carrying one around from table to table. In the case of the system offered to Alan, I think it's most likely limited to a few SCSI disks next to the main cage.
> it worked well enough for me to hack with it and watch it slowly ooze > through n-way compiles (my box was a herd of low end 386's). Cool. 32 386/16's are as fast as, um, er, hrm. A slow PII. Ick. ;-)
> can you still sup mach for those things? I got a copy of it 3 or 4 years ago, never had the time or energy to boot it (or a spare machine at that time). I wouldn't have the sligtest clue where to look, but it's out there somewhere. If all else fails, I work with one of the guys that did the port, so he might have a bead on where to get it.
TTYL, Omega
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