Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:45:46 -0800 (PST) | From | Erik Walthinsen <> | Subject | Re: SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs |
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> > That, of course, will change when someone donates one of > those old 8-CPU [34]86 SMP machines from Compaq or Sequent > to one of the scheduler hackers :)) <hint, hint> > It's happened already... ahem... what did I say... silly me
Someone was prepared to donate an old 32-proc Sequent machine (S81: 386/20 procs, maybe 256MB RAM, couple SCSI channels and disks) to Alan Cox a while ago (6mo?) but he was unable to find anywhere to put it (7ft x 3ft x 4ft, needs 3-phase, heats your house, etc.) at the time. Perhaps if someone has space in a data center to put it, and it still exists, someone could get it online (after shipping it from France or somesuch) and let people port to it.
A good starting place would be Mach, which was ported to that exact machine a while ago by a professor I work with. I think all the hardware needed for this large machine is supported by the Mach port, which is still available somewhere...
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