Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:37:54 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs |
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Hi,
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:49:24 -0800, "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com> said:
> The basic hardware components, however, have been shipping for some > time, so the "mechanism for binding 1024 cpus into a single box" does > exist.
You can put a cluster into one box. You can bind the memory tightly through message passing, and you can present a single system image to the user. The fact that it's in one box doesn't make it SMP!
--Stephen
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