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Re: Linux & Multiple processing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M Bealer)
Mon Jun 10 23:47:45 1996
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 22:46:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
Reply-To: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
To: "David S. Miller" <dm@neteng.engr.sgi.com>
cc: rowehrli@pixi.com, rene@universal.nl, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606101948.MAA29010@neteng.engr.sgi.com>
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, David S. Miller wrote:
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>
> I've been running 4-way SMP under SparcLinux for months...
But is it *fast* ? :)
Really though how is the performance compared to a single CPU machine of the
same series?
> I don't know of a hardware platform that supports 16 P-CPUs, but
> it sounds as if some impressive numbers would be possible with such an
> animal--assuming the system wasn't extremely I/O bound.
>
> Sun has been making ~20cpu capable machines for a few years now. SGI
> has had 36-cpu capable machines for some time... expect this number to
> increase exponentially, these will be considered small machines
> tomorrow.
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> dm@sgi.com
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