Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 02:25:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Merry <ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: brownie@earthling.net, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP Message-ID: <199704300625.CAA01915@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199704291823.LAA04826@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Apr 29, 97 11:23:27 am"
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Terry Lambert wrote... > > > Compare this to Sequent's Dynix, which scales well to 32 processors, > > > or Thinking Machines, which scales into the thousands of processors. > > > > The Sequent S81 at Georgia Tech, which uses Dynix, is not an SMP > > machine. Some of it's processor us a master-slave relationship. > > This must be an older machine with the I/O processor relationship. I > assume it's a 386 based box? Yes, it was a 386 machine. (I say was because ol' hydra has gone to the great bit heap in the sky...) I believe in its final configuration it was 16 33MHz 386's, with 387 coprocessors. Dynix had this fun utility called monitor that would show the load on each of the processors... (a little ascii-based thing, looked kinda like this: 0 ---> 8 ---------> 1 ------> 9 ------> ... ... Except it was full-screen. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.
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