Digipaq has maintained for quite some time that systems
with more than a few processor do not scale well. IIRC
the sweet spot mentioned was 4-6 processors. Above that
the increase in performance per processor decreases.
Having 8 "systems" of 4 processors each able to communicate at
memory speeds would have some uses, I suspect.
Eric Ebinger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanco, Donald [mailto:VANCOD@PIOS.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 1:54 PM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Wildfire?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Lindahl [mailto:glindahl@hpti.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 12:43 PM
> > To: axp-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: Wildfire?
> >
> >
> > > I know this is likely a more appropriate question for
> Compaq - but has
> > > anyone heard anything about Linux and the coming "wildfire"?
> >
> > Yeah, I heard that the Linux port to that environment was
> > just a stunt, meant to demo the machine with 3 OSes in separate
> partitions.
> Yeah - I believe they had it on only 4 or 8 of the
> CPU's plus Tru64
> and VMS.
>
> > Linux isn't going to magically support more CPUs than it does today
> > because of that hardware.
> Yeah - I realize that, I was just wondering what the
> progression was
> looking like (I believe 2.4 will handle 32 CPU's?). I
> believe that Compaq
> is playing the partitioning card and not even looking at the
> "128 CPU OS"
> side of the platform. Sure would make for some nice
> clusters, however. Not
> really the space for linux - just yet anyway....
>
> Don
>
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