> 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.
A more reasonable estimate hovers closer to 4 when discussing
2.2.x. In my opinion, one or more of these hot-to-trot
big iron houses (IBM, SGI, Sun) needs to put more actions to
their words and contribute some useful code in the way of
scalability. Chances are good none of them will, as
highly-scalable systems running commercial Un*x implementations
are their honeypot du jour.
> Having 8 "systems" of 4 processors each able to communicate at
> memory speeds would have some uses, I suspect.
Ah yes, the SLOSS argument - single large or several small.
Doubtless our resident cluster architect, Mr. Lindahl, has
comments on the subject but this is probably not the proper
forum ;-)
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