Re: 500mhz alpha

Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:25:23 -0500 (EST)

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> The two 500mhz Alpha systems that I've seen (Enorex and Quant-X)
> both use the Digital PC164 motherboard and are limited to 1mb cache

Thats not so hot. I suspect that a 500MHz machine needs lots of cache.

> motherboard? Does anyone know of any 500mhz alpha systems with larger
> cache (eg., 4mb like the Digital systems) and a higher RAM limit?

Digital has a 500 MHz workstation with an 8M cache. Unfortunatly I don't
know anything else about it. They are supposed to be sending me one, so
hopefully that will change.

> Has anyone seen any SMP machines with more than one 500mhz 21164 chip?

Linux does not run on SMP alphas (yet), so you are sort of out of
luck on that front. I have not seen 500MHz CPUs in any SMP system,
though we just got a 4 processor machine with 400MHz CPUs. I think most
of Digital's SMP machines are designed to be servers though. I don't think
they have any type of SMP workstation at all.

Jim

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