Eclipse manufacturs 32-way xeon boxes too. http://www.eclipse.com/, recently
bought out by Data General, (http://www.dg.com/, used to be the
manufacturers of the Aviion/Eclipse mainframe machines... and their
proprietory O/S 'unicos'. They still sell/manufacture the numa based 32-way
xeon boxes, though they've stopped supporting the legacy mainframes.
Nathan Vidican
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://Nathan.Vidican.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilko Bulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Josh M Osborne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question)
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Josh M Osborne wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification;
> > > > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent
> > > > (Intel had a patent on the APIC design), or if it's
> > > > just been long enough for it to come off patent
> > >
> > > The Athlon uses the Alpha's ev6 spec, not the intel spec.
>
> > That may explain why you can buy Alpha systems with 40+ CPUs, and
>
> 32 max, on Wildfire.
>
> > Intel XENON boxes with no more then eight (or is it four?). It is
>
> Eight, eg on a Compaq Proliant 8000. Or 32 for the Unisys (IIRC) CMP
> machines.
>
> --
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> |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind"
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