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Re: Wildfire?

Subject: Re: Wildfire?
From: Peter Rival (frival@zk3.dec.com)
Date: Mon Jan 10 15:36:19 2000


"Vanco, Donald" wrote:
<snip>

>
> > 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....
>

I believe the target for 2.4 is ~8cpus. Seeing as the majority of systems are
x86, and that's the highest most non-esoteric x86configurations go, that's
probably a reasonable target. We can address whatever the Intel SMP spec
allows, IIRC, but being able to use them is another story.

 - Pete

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