On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:58:15 -0400, rumours say that Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>For many (most?) applications in need of >serious scalability, multi-processor servers are preferable. IBM has >eServers available with up to 64 processors each, and Sun sells E25Ks >with 72 processors apiece. SGI offers modular single-image Itanium2 servers of up to 512 CPU at the moment: http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/configs.html And NASA have clustered 20 of these machines to create a 10240 CPU cluster... >I like to work on those sorts of machine >when possible. Of course, they're not right for every application, >especially since they're so expensive. And expensive they are :) -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Dear Paul, please stop spamming us." The Corinthians -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list